FREDERICK WH ITAKER ES Q U IRE, OF BAMPTON,

ONE O F HER MAJESTY ’S JUSTICES O F THE PEACE

FOR THE COUNTY OF OX FORD,

THIS H ISTORY OF H IS NATIVE TOWN

IS DEDICATED

BY HIS SINCERE FRIEND AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

The geography of Britain, as of all the m oderncountries of

Europe, has undergone at least two, perhaps in some parts

three changes ofnomenclature since the beginning of the Chris

tianera. The names of places, which occur in early British

history, whilst the ancient Britons still enjoyed independence,were mostly altered or modified by the Romans . The Italian

pronunciationstill delights to give euphony to theTeutonic and

Celtic names of the north, by adding vowels and syllabic termi

nations to the uncouth consonants of the native idiom .

*

A fter the departure of the Romans, the country now called

England, but at that time Britain, was invaded and conquered

The Brit ish prince , who bravely opposed the inva sionof Julius Ca sar , is thought tohave beencalled Caswa lloninh is nat ive tongue but the clas sic ears of the Rom an invaders softened the term into the m ore fl ow ing m aj esty of Ca ssibe llaunus .

Cunobelinor Cunobelinus was another British prince ofnote he is called Cym beline byShakespeare .

Many instances of this change ofnam e occur inhis tory. Insom e ca ses whenthe soundsuit s

_the idiom s of both languages , a change of spelling alone takes place . Thus

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by the Saxons . The first leaders of this tribe of barbarians,

Hengist and Horsa, landed inthe year of our Lord 4419, and atthe end of a hundred and fifty years, during which there were

continual wars betweenthem and the Britons, we find that the

names of most of the towns were changed or in some Waymodified by thenew-com ers . "

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Inthe year 1 066,William the Conqueror landed at Hastings,and inthe course of his reignnearly all the baronies and great

fiefs of the crown changed hands and became the property of

the Norman lords who accompanied the Duke. We can

not doubt that many places, of less note or situated inremote

districts, received new names according to the fancy or caprice

of their new owners .

To these causes m ay be mainly ascribed the great difficulty,which we have inidentifying places, as described in ancient

authors, with towns and villages still existing .

There is little doubt that the townof Bamptonis one of the

oldest inEngland . The etymology of the name shows it to

be of Ancient British origin, unchanged by the tide of Anglo

Saxon invasion, which s wept away so much of British laws,

customs and language. The termination -TON, which m arks

so many names of towns all over the island, is spelt innearly

Daubigny, a freebooting captainof the fifteenth century , is called D’O bigni by the polite

I talians , whose purses he took from ' them .

f In proof of thi s observation, we have several instances inthe Ecclesiastical H is

tory of Venerable Bede , where two nam es are givento the sam e place . Thus in the

second chapter of the firs t book , he says , “ The blessed Alban suffered deat h on the

22nd of'June , nea r th e city of Verulam , wh ich is now by the English nation called

Verlam aces tir or Varlingacestir .

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all old manuscrip ts -TUNE, and was probably at first pronounc

ed as the modern Scotch pronounce it, A large num

ber of English towns end with the syllable -DON, and this

termination also is written ~DUN or -DUNE in ancient manu

scripts .

I t is not to be denied that these terminations -TON and

-DON are also Anglo-Saxon forms,* and pass for such among

lexicographers : but those who reflect on the numerous

name s of towns, ending in -DUNUM &e. and existing over

all Ancient Britainand Gaul, long before the invasionof the

Saxons, can hardly avoid the inference that the Celtic language

was the source from which flowed those Saxon names

of towns ending in -DON and as was before observed .

If then this theory be correct, —and I think it is hardlysusceptible of a doubt

,—it remains to enquire what was the

primitive signification'

oi these syllables -TON -DON,

-TUNE,-DUNE, -DUNUM,

‘

-DINUM, &c . from which are derived the

modernEnglish words -TOWN and -DOWN . Now the theorythat these words are of Briti sh or Celtic origin is much

strengthened by the fact that the French language, wh ich, likethe English

,derives many words from the old Celtic

,still

retains the word DUNE denoting a HEIGHT or EMINENCE ,generally of an epen or exposed charac ter, and similar in

It is the preva iling opinion, tha t the Anglo-Saxons entirely exterm inated the Britonsbut this is surely a m ista ke . The inhabitants of a ll the south of Bri ta in, inthe tim e of

Julius Cae sar , were of Belgie, not of Celtic descent , and it is probable that they were a

kind red race to the Anglo-Saxons . I f so , the victorious Anglo -Saxons would not exterm

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appearance to that particular kind of country which we call

a DOWN . If therefore we can discover any connectionbe

tween the idea of a town,as we at present understand

the word, and that Of a down,we shall have no difficulty

in proving that -'rON, nuns , -DON

,-DUNE

,-DOWN and TOWN

are different m odifications of the sam e word,

and,as far

as etym ology is concerned, denote the same thing. Such a

connection is not difficult to find,whenwe reflect that the

towns of the Ancient Britons were all strongholds,

erected

on DOWNS or heights, according to the description given

of them by Caesar and other ancient writers .

These observations will lead the reader to perceive from

etymology that the word Bam pton is at all events as Old

as the Anglo-Saxons, and probably of Ancient British originsl'

This inference would be conclusive, if we could trace the

first syllable of the word'

Bampton to an equally earlyorigin

,but I am not acquainted with any Celtic or An

cient British wor d from which the syllable BAM canhave been

inate ,but am algam ate with the subdued Britons , and the ir future dialect woul d show tracesof the union. Th e sam e view of the subject is takenby Sir Francis Palgrave . It m ay

he rem arked , tha t the influence of conquest wa s often counteracted and neutra lizedby the a ffini ty of the conquering and the conquered nat ions . Th e w aves which fl owed"1 the sam e channel usually proceeded from the sam e

.,source . Thus , in England , the

original Belgic populat ion of Lloegria , and their despoilers , and those whs subdued thevanquished victors were all brethren: Britons and Anglo-Saxons , Danes and Norm ans

were all rela t ions , however host ile , they were a ll k insm en, shedding kindred blood : andevenwhenthe races were not so nearly connec ted,the pervad ing resem blances of the lawsof the earli er ages contr ibuted to lightenthe yoke of conques t , and to d isgui se the innovat ions which were really effected by the transfer of sovereignty.”

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derived ; its etymology is pure Saxon, and it is written 111

that language BEAM,which like BAUM inGerman signifies a

‘tree,’ though the term has after many centuries beennar

rowed in application, until it signifies no longer the living

tree, but the log or trunk of it after it has been felled and

hewn,and placed as a m ain-timber or beam to support the

roof or ceiling Of a honse.

‘l‘

It would appear, then, from this etymology that the name

BAMP’

I‘

ON is equivalent to tree-town, and we are at once

of Nevern, and one of our first Welsh scholars . H e refers m e to Dr . JohnDavies ’sWelsh-Lat indictionary printed inLondon, A . D . 1632 , and to D r . OwenBughe’a English~Welsh Dictionary.From the form er of these works I extract the following m eanings“D I N , idem quod Dnus .

D INA B, civi ta s , urbs . nan. Pagn. in Dun. A rab . Medinaton.

From the la tte r

“D IN , a fort ifi ed hill or m ount a cam p ; 8 fort . I t form s the nam es O f a great num

ber of places inthose countries which were inhabited by the CYM RY or Ancient Britons .

Hence the m es on,-D INU K or the -D IN I U M , of the Rom ans ; -TUNE , m ore,

a rc s ,

and TOWN of the English .

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To these extracts m ay be added the following from Bosworth ’s Anglo-Saxondictionary .

“nuns , f. [Plat . Ger. D'

a , f. Dut .nurs e s , m . pl. . Dan. nrnnnnn, f. pl . Frs . DU NE f.Celt . Bre t . m . I. ) a m ountain, hill, DOWN S m ons , [then follow references topas sage s inthe Anglo-Sax onB ible ] 1 ofnone , annnn, D OWN , D OWN-WA RDS .

run, a s m . [Plat . runs , m . a hedge , garden: Dut . r vm ,m . a garden, hedge : Ger. Z A UN ,

m . a bedge ; old Ger . runs , zen Not. sr zrnzun, a wall ; Icel. run. n. viridarium , pratumdom es ticum ;Wel . m n,nm a s ,a city: Gael . T U IN ,f. a dwelling-place : Ir . Gael . D UN ,m . a for

tress , tower , a fort ified bill, a hill , hedge , heap : Ir. r a m , f. a town— m a rs to enclose .]

l . a place fenced round or enclosed ; septum quodvis . 2 . A close , field , yard , farm , loca l

po ssession: praedium , fundus , ager, posses s io . 3 . A place of residence, house , dwelling,village , TOWN , a terr itory lying w ith inthe bounds of a town habitaculum ,

dom us , vicus ,villa , oppidum . 4. A clas s , course , turn clas sis .

”Thenfollow exam ples of the use of the word .

t The explana tionof B eam dune found inBosworth ’s Anglo-Saxondictionary.

B EAM-DUNE . B E AM a tree , D U NE a h ill.Th e nam e of m any places inEngland , so called from their elevated position, covered

with wood ,now corrupted into Bam pton. Chr . 8 14.

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O F BAMPTON .

led to conjecture that this appellation was given to it from

the woody character of the surrounding country. There is,

indeed,no doubt tha t the whole tract of country inwhich

it is situated,like all. swampy places frequently subject to

inundation, was covered with a large forest, inmemory of which

the name of “Bampton in the Bush,distinguishing the

town from others,its nam esakes

,has descended even to our

own times .

2 . DESCRIPTION or BAMPTON IN ITs PRESENT STATE.

Leaving then the etymology of the name as suficiently

as certained for our present purpose,I shall proceed to

describe the parish in its pres ent state,with reference

to its position in the county Of Oxford, the nature Of its

soil, and its hearings in regard te other towns and places

Of greater importance in its vicinity.

A very slight inspectionof the map of England will shew

that the river called successively the Isis and the Thames,

for a length of about 1 00 miles, form s a boundary between

the counties of Oxfordshire and Berkshire. This noble

stream leaves Glocestershire near the small village of Kelm s

eott and flowing eastward takes a bend, first towards the

north and afterwards back to the south so as to enclose a

large projecting part of Berkshire. It then makes a large

bend towards the eas t and again ascending towards the

north and enclosing in its cour se all the southern half

of Oxfordshire, it quits the county at the m arket townof

Henley uponThames .

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A t the south-western corner of Oxfordshire, and lying on

the north side Of the river, is , the hundr ed of Bampton,which

,besides the market-town and parish Of Bamptonwith

its various ham lets, contains the large and ancient towns of

Witney and Burford, the township of Grafton, the parishes

Of Alvescott, A sthall, A sthall Leigh, Black Bourton other

wise called Boreton or BurtonAbbat’s, Bradwell, Broughton

Poggs, Clanfield, Ducklington, Filkins, IIarley, Hardwicke,

Kelmscott,Kensett, Brize-Norton, Radcot, Standlake, U pton,

Signet,Westwell, Yelford

,and the cliapelry of Holwell .

The hundred of Bampton is cut Off from the rest of the

county by the river Windruslr or Wainrus, which leaving

Gloucestershire near Burford,separates the hundred of B am p

ton from that of Wootton, and passing onto Witney bendstowards the south, and after forming a boundary line between

Bampton and Chadlingtonhundreds,falls into the Isis near

New Bridge inthe parish of Standlake. The parish of B am pton is the most southerly in the hundred to which it gives

a name, and is bounded onthe south by the river Isis whic h

skirts it for a distance of about 8 miles between the par

ishes of Standlake on the east and Clanfield on the west .

The boundary line, where it quits the river on the east,

touches successively on the parish of Standlake, Hardwicke

field, Yelford, Ducklington, Curbridge a hamlet in the pa

rish of Witney, Brize-Norton, Blackbourton and Clanfield,

after which it again joins the river on the western side

of the parish about a mile short of Radcot bridge.

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This large parish is distant about 7 miles S . E . by S .

from Burford 6 S . W . by W . from Witney, and about

1 4 miles W . from Oxford ina strait line through the parishes

of Stanlake and North-moor,across B ablock-hythe ferry, and

from thence through the grounds of the Earl of Abingdonand the village of Cumnor

,to Oxford . The communication

between Bampton and London has always been attended

with m any difficulties, resulting partly from the nature of

the country, and partly from its not being situated near any

Of the great high-roads which connect Londonwith the pro

vinces . Whilst on the south or Berkshire side of the river

the country rises suddenly into a long chainof hills extending

for many miles east and west, and leaving little or no in

terval betweentheir foot and the water’ s edge, the country on

the side Of Oxfordshire expands into a large plain, reaching

from Cumnor inthe east to beyond Fairford in the west, a

distance of from twenty to thirty m i les . In this extent Of

country ; bordering on the north bank of the river Isis,some

parts of the parish of Bamptonare the very lowest, lying, here

and there, almost as low as the river’ s bed, so that

an inundation is a matter of frequent occurrence, and in

winter many thousand acres are covered with water. The

length of Bampton parish is about 6 m iles from its most

eastern hamlet Brighthamptonto its westernboundary ontheClanfield road. In this direction the country is perfectly flat

with hardly the slightest rise or undulation of sur face ; but

its width, which extends from Tadpole bridge in the south

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to Lew, the most northerly hamlet of Bampton parish, i s

about 4 miles, of which the last m ile and half is a gradual

rise towards a line of low hills running from Hardwieke and

Standlake fields inthe East through Yelford, and Lew, where

it rises to its highest elevation at Lew Barrow, and falls

away gradually on all sides between the parishes Of Brize

Norton, Black-Boreton and Kencot .

Inthe midst of the flat bounded on the north by the Lew

hills and on the south by the river Isis, is situated the

town of Bampton, at about equal distances from the north

ern and southern boundaries of the parish, but much nearer

to its western extremity, being four miles distant from the

latter and only one m i le from the former .

The parish contains, besides the township of Bampton, the

hamlets of Weald, Haddon, Lew,A ston

,Chimney, Bright

hampton, Old Shifford, New Shifford, Cote, and Rushey.

Of these hamlets, Lew is sufficiently extensive to become

hereafter a parish by itself. A ston is a still more consider~

able village, and will, inconjunctionwithCote, Brighthampton,Chimney, Old and New Sliifford, form another separate pa

rish, so that Bamptonwill retain,of all its former depe

deuces, nothing but the hamlets OfRushcy, IladdonandWeald,

the last of which already joi ns it so as to show no apparent

separation.

Of thes e villages, and hamlets, some are of the smallest

description, being rather localities than places where severa l

families reside. Thus Haddoncontains only one farm -house and

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a few cottages of labourers . Chimney has two farm -houses

only, and Rushey, situated onthe river at almost the south-west

erncorner Of the parish, contains only one house, inhabited bya single family, who have the charge Of a lock established there

to facilitate the navigationof the river . I m ay observe that

the etymology Of the nameRush-eye, or the Isle of rushes,is

substantiated not only by the nature Of the place,but by the

similar forms,Sheppey or the “ isle of sheep

,

”“Thorney ‘

”or the “ isle Of thorns

,Anglesey, or the isle of the An

gles, and others, which abound in almost all parts of Eng

land . But it is not necessary to go to a distance for examples

Of this ancient Anglo -Saxonmode of forming names Of places

for I believe the ham let of Chimney m ay possibly derive its

name ina similar manner, as if writtenChimu-eye, though there

is another etymology Of this name which will be hereafter m en

tioned ; andLake Reddy lane, which leads from the Buckland

road downtowards the meadows, seems to retaintraces of having

originally taken its name from“ Reed-eye o r the “ isle of

reeds . It has beenalready Observed that the name of

Bamptonsignifies the Tree- town,”

and to conclude the list

it m ay be Observed that A ston is writtenEstune i . e . East

towninLeofric’ s Charter : Shifford is the sheep-ford, Bright

ham pton is composed of the three words, BR IGHT, HAM,and

TOWN : Haddon is a word formed out of the Old termination

-D ON,before described, though the meaning of its first syllable

HAD seem s more uncertain; but the etymology of Lew has

hitherto baffled all m y enquiries .

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year, beans the second, and barley the third, after which the

land was suffered to lie fallow the four th year, to recover its

strength for the ensuing crop of wheat.

But many other kinds of graingrow with much freedom inall

parts of the parish . Oats thrive well ; barley is perhaps the

leas t productive : peas seem to agree with the nature of the

soil, and yet they are little cultivated for they are never plen

tiful andgenerally sold at a high price. All kinds of roots and

other vegetables are also grown ingreat abundance : potatoes

here,as elsewhere, are the standard produce of the kitchengar

den. Jerusa lem artichokes are astonishingly productive : I

have gathered nearly a peek of them from a single root . The

usual kinds of fruit grown ingardens are found inBampton.

Apples grow inall parts of the parish and inthe orchard be

longing to Cote house, fifteenor twenty hogs-heads of cider are

made inone season.

Apricots,walnut s and pears gr ow with great luxuriance

strawberries have beensaid to be ill -adapted to the soil, but this

is certainly an error : for there are some gardens where the

finest specim ens Of this fruit have beengathered, and inorder

to secure a good crop it seems to be only necessary to well

moistenthe beds inwhich they grow .

4 . O F THE TOWN OF RAMPTON .

The townitself of Bam ptonconsists of three principal streets

which meet onthe m arket-place. Here stands a large town

hall, the lower part of which is surrounded by openarches and

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forms a small but commodious market-house. It is to be wish

ed that this building could be more serviceable to the inhabi

tants inthe use for which it was erected but the neighbour

ingmarkets of Witney, Faringdon, Burford, and evenOxford at

the distance of so many miles, are too attractive to the farmers,

and the m arket of Bamptonwhich is held onWednesdays sel

dom presents more thana few sellers of eggs, andbutter, though

large numbers of pigs are sold onthat day.

Of the three streets which meet onthe m arket-place, High

street seems to be the principal : onreaching the extremity of

the town towards the South-east, it is separated into two

branches, one of which leads to A ston, Shifford, Brighthampton,

&c. the other passing over Fisher’ s bridge, and two miles fur

ther on, over Tadpole bridge, leads to Buckland, Stanford,

and the FaringdonRoad Stationonthe Great Western Rail

way. From thi s stationBamptonis more thannine miles dis

tant.

Returning to the Town-Hall and taking a northerly direction,wefindourselves inBroad Street

,so called from its great breadth

it is a dull street, lined onboth sides with low houses, possess

ing little to attract the notice of the traveller. At the end of

Broad Street, separating the town from the country are the

grounds and large manor-house of BamptonDeanery, the pro

perty and residence of Frederick Whitaker Esquire, J . P. This

estate is copy-hold held in lease of the Deanand chapter of

Exeter .

To the west of Broad-Street are two or three lanes or back

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streets leading to the Parish-church and burying-ground the

widest of these is generally called Church Street . The

third principal thoroughfare is called Mill-Street,from them i ll

stream over which it runs, and passing thr ough Weald between

an old house now occupied as a school, sometimes called

the m anor-house of Bampton, and the ruins of the old castle,

now called Ham -court, divides itself, at Cow-lees corner, into

two branches, one of which leads to Olanfield, and over Radcot

bridge to Faringdon, the other leads through the villages of

Black-Boreton,Alvescott, Kencott, &c. to Lechlade and Fair

ford inGloucestersbire.

We againreturnto the town, and proceed to describe the

principal objects of interest which it contains . The fir st of these

is its fine parish-church .

5 . O F THE PARI SH -CHURCH or BAMPTON .

The chur ch of Bampton is situated on the north-western

side of the town, in the centre Of a large church-yard,

which, from being removed out of the immediate thorough

fare, and from the num ber of trees with which it abounds,

has a rural and interesting appearance. The church-yard is

skir ted onthree Sides by the street : onthe north-side of it, is

the ancient gate-way leading to the Deanery, next to which

is the principal of the three Vicarages, destined hereafter,

whenthe portions are separated, t o become the residence of

the vicar of Bampton Proper ; Adjoining to the gardens of

the Vicarage, on the eastern side, i s a respectable house of

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cons iderable antiquity, and once in the occupation of a family

named Wood, who, from circumstances hereafter to be m en

tioned, have acquired a species of historic, or at lea st romantic,

notoriety. The house is now the property of Thomas Den

ton,Esq ,

one of the lords of the manor of Bampton. To it

succeed two rustic cottages and a small side entrance gate

way, leading through the grounds of Bam ptonDeanery manor

house,completes the northernside of the square inWhich the

parish-church is situated . Onthe easternside are two houses

only, namely a low cottage and a large house which was for :

merly one Of the vicarages, but has lately beensold with the

consent of the Bishop to raise money for building another vice - x

rage-house hereafter, whenthe livings are separated, inthe pa r

rish ofA ston. Onthe south- side Of the church are some ruins

and the third Vicarage, a roomy and comfortable residence,but

with no pretensions to beauty of appearance or architectural

ornament . It will hereafter be the residence of the vicar of

Lew,until a more convenient situationfor a new Vicarage shall

be Obtained withinthe parish, ofwhich he wil l have the charge.

The principal approach, leading to the South-porch of the

Church, near Church Street, is on this side, and the point

of view, to a spectator standing near the gate of the Old Gram

mar-school, is picturesque and pleasing. The western side of

the Chur ch -

yard is occupied by the Deanery-house, lawn, and

paddock, which are separated by a wall from the Church

yard .

The church itself is a hands ome cruciform building,

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possessing many peculiarities in its architecture and orna

ments .

It is composed of a nave with north and south isles,two

transepts and a chancel . On the eastern side of the north

trans ept is a small chapel,now used as anengine-house : the

south transept has two chapels, one on each side of it that

onthe easternside is generally called Hoard’ s isle

,because it

i s the burial-place of the Hoard’

fam ily, formerly owners of Cote

house. The westernisle of the south transept is opento the

nave of the church, and is occupied by pews . The service of

the church is performed inthe nave only the transepts, from

the size of the building and the clumsy “galleries which sur

round the nave and separate it from the rest of the church,

are at present of no other use thanas passages or throughfares

to the interior.'

Over the junctionof the nave with the transepts, stands a

massive tower rising about 65 feet from the ground : above

which is placed a stately Spire, about 1 50 feet high, a conspifi

cuous object to all the surrounding country. A t the base of

the spire, and Springing from the corners of the tower, are

four figures of Apostles, giving“ to the exterior of the church

that peculiar appearance which belongs to m any of the Dx

fordshire churches . The chancel is of ample d imensions and

contains oneach side old oak seats, like those of a cathedral or

college-chapel ; but there is no record of there ha ving been

a larger body or chapter of clergy than its three vicars ;

and it is believed that the appellation Deanery,’ which is

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ON. xxvn

applied to the ancient house adjoining to the church -

yard, forms

no ground for supposing that there was ever a Deanof Bamp a

ten: the name is probably derived from some temporary

or occasional residence of one of the Deans of Exeter, or

perha ps from the mere fact of its havi ng been the property of

those dignitaries .

The living of Bam ptonis divided into three portions, held

by three vicars who are termed portionists . It has, how

ever, rarely happened that three incumbents have beenall resi

dent at once for whils t one or other of the portions has been

held by non-res ident vicars, having other preferment elsewhere,

it has evenhappened that two of the portions have, at least once,

been held by the sam e vicar, nor is i t now probable that

the parish will ever derive benefit from the presence of their

three spiritual superiors : the reforming Spirit of the age

has di rected,through a recent ordinance of the ecclesias tica

comm ission, that when a new vicar shall be appointed, the

three portions shall be separated,and each shall form a dis

tinct parish .

The architecture of the church is of various styles : the

most ancient pa rt of the building is to be sought for at the in

tersectionof the chancel and transepts here is still rem aining

a low semi- circular ornamental arch with mouldings laid upon

a square style of m asonry, such as marks the Saxonand Nor‘

m an period . The four pointed arches,on which the tower

res ts, are next inantiquity, and the whole of the tower above

is certainly earlier than any part of the superstructure of

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either the nave, chancel, or transepts . The upper part of the

tower is occupied by a peal of six fine-toned bells,besides a

smaller specimen, which gives forth anattenuated sound, far

inferior to the m ajestic notes that p roceed from its more ponderous neighbours .

Besides these bells the tower contains a large clock, which,whenit strikes, is heard to a considerable distance. There are

also chimes,which play an ancient carol at the hours of one,

five and nine. The practise of ringing the curfew is also retain

ed at Bampton at 8 inthe evening a bell sends forth its soli

tary voice, but no fires or candles are now extinguished at the

signal, which like the letter of an obsolete law, still appears on

the pages of the statute-book,though its spirit has depar

ted A t 4 inthe morning,also

,from Lady-day to Michaelmas,

the Matins hell is placed on duty : so tenacious are we in

some respects of the customs of our forefathers ; we ring the

curfew at evening to warn the country-m an to rest, and in

the morning by the matins -bell sum mon him from thence

to his daily labours !

Onthe floor immediately beneath the bells is a

'

handsome

belfry with double-niches onevery side worked in the thick

ness of the wall . A square trap-door appears in the centre

of the floor,which was formerly open to the chur ch beneath,

but has withinthe las t century beenboarded up. The floor of

the belfry rests ona sort of corbel string-course of ornamental

masonry, which is readi ly seen from the church below, and

seems to lead to the inference that an ornamental gallery was

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Onthe east side of the north transept withinthe chapel be a

fore alluded to, is a beautiful recumbent effigy, apparently of

the period of king Henry the 4th, but it is unfortunately so

mutilated, and wantonly disfigured, that it is impossible to a r

rive at any satisfactory conclusionas to the personage whom it

is intended to commemorate.

Another recumbent effigy which was intended no doubt to

repose withinthe church, ,

is now placed inthe church-yard, near

ly under the east window : its mutilated state renders it diffi

cult to say whether it is the effigy of a m anor of a woman.

Onthe wall betweenthis chapel and the chancel is a speci

m enof enriched sculpture, let into the wall ; it represents, with

inflorid Gothi c recesses,Christ and the twelve apostles : the

carving is however indifferently executed, and the piece is in

teresting only as affording anexample of the style of the fif

teenth century. This and many o ther of the ornamental parts

of the church were once richly covered with paint, which, for

centuries perhaps, has beenconcealed from view by the all -enve

lopping white-wash, by which so m any of our old parish church

es have beendisfigured .

This carving was probably intended originally to be a rere

~dos to the high -altar, or perhaps it m ay have been an appen

dage to one of the altar-tombs, of which pi scinae and other

vestiges are still to be seeninvarious parts of the church .

The arm s of the see of Exeter occur inthe chancel and other

parts of the building, and the Normandoorcase leading into

the south transept, and the Gothic semi-porch and entrance

HISTO RY O F BAMPTO N . xxxi

at the west end of the nave, are specimens worthy of the

notice of antiquar ies .

The other monuments, not here specified, are not remark

able for originality of design or architectural beauty. A s

a copy of all the epitaphs taken from the tombs both within

and without the church will be found inanother part of

this volume,it is unnecessary here to repeat inbriefwhat m ay

there be seeninall its details .

I conclude this account of Bamptonchurch with the follow

ing remarks of Mr. Skelton, who has devoted several pages, in

his valuable “Antiquities of Oxfordshire,”to a description of

this parish,its church and other antiquities .

“The massive tower affords a good specimen of Norman

achitecture, but the ornamental belfry clearly demonstrates,

that the architect did not contemplate that this part of the

tower should be hiddenfrom the spectator, viewing it ‘from the

floor of the church . It is much to be lamented, that the

internal architectural beauty of many of our finest tow ers has

been destroyed by the mode of bellringing, which renders it

necessary to have belfries nearer to the bells .

The‘ great antiquity of the chur ch is clearly attested by

considerable portions of Norman architec ture observable in

various parts of the structure. These remains are however so

intermingled with archi tecture ofsubs equent ages, that in this

building alone we have examples o f almost every period, from

the conquest to the reign of Kiiig George the Third . From

the character of the Spire, and other parts of this building, it

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appears probable that it was erected about the same time as

the neighbour ing churches of Witney and Burford.

6 . OF THE vrcans AND CHURCH-ESTABLISHMENT or

I3AMPTON .

The church of Bampton is open for divine service on

Sundays at the hours of 1 1 and 3, and onWednesdays and

Fridays at 1 1 . To these have of late been added services

inthe chancel, at 8 inthe morning onordinary days, and at 1 1

and 4 onSaints -days . The Sunday services are onthe whole

well attended, but at the weekly service there is but a scantycongregation, owing, no doubt, to the laborious daily occupa

tions of the inhabitants .

The duties of the Church are discharged by the three

vicars or their cur ates,who formerly, when there were

only the parish church of Bampton and the chapel-of

ease at Shifford, were on duty each dur ing four months

of the year, but, this arrangement not being agreeable

to one of the former vicar s, it was determined in a court

of law that the three incumbents should.

di scharge

the duties ofthe parish inturn, each every third week . Since

the of two additional churches, a t Lew and at

Aston, the Sunday services have fallen sufficiently heavy

ou’

,all the three vicars alike, or on those who as curates

perform these duties for them .

The revenues of the vicars of Bam ptonare considerable, and

in consequence of circumstances which have happened from

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time to time, arise from various sources . The original source

of revenue were tithes, which were paid by all the inhabitants

of the townand the adjoining hamlets . Inadditionto these,

a large sum of money is paid yearly to the vicars by the parish

of Clanfield. Simi lar payments, but much smaller in amount,

are made by the parishes of Standlake and Yelford : th

former of these pays between two and three pounds a year,

the latter pays twenty pence a year to the vicars of Bam pton.

Inreturnfor this payment, certainlands inboth those parishes

exempt from the payment of tithes to their ownclergymen.

Inthe year 1 8 1 2 large tracts of commonland were enclosed

inthis parish, and by anarrangement thenmade,three estates,

lying indifferent parts of the parish, were set apart for the

vica rs in lieu of tithes so that at present the town

of Bamptonand the hamlets of Weald and Lew are tithe-free .

In addition to these estates, and the money which comes in

from Clanfield, Standlake and Yelford,the hamlets of A ston

and Cote, whi ch for tithe-purposes are assessed together, also

Brighthampton, Shifford and Chimney, which are separatelyas ses sed, pay certain sums of money yearly, according to the

recent act for the commutationof tithes : and from all these

sources, the three portionists of the living of Bampton enjoya revenue amounting to betweenfifteenhundred and two then

sand a year .

The other officers, attached to the church establishment of

Bampton, are a clerk, sexton, organist, and company of ringers .

A bedel, also, although properly a civic functionary, is m ostlyE

H ISTORY O F HAMPTON .

seen onduty near the sacred edifice,under whose shadow

perhaps, from his advanced years, he already contem plates enjoying his last rest .

The custody of the parish - church of Bampton is in the

hands of two church-wardens, one of whom is appointed by

the vestry-meeting, the other by the three vicars . One of the

gentlemenwho now hold this office, has discharged its duties

with credit and respectability during the long period of

thirty years .

The parish-clerk of Bamptonis appointed by the vicars ; his

salary proceeds out of the rents of the Church-lands the sexton

is elected by the parishioners investry assembled . The former

recelves £1 0, the latter £5 . 1 95 . a year .

The organist receives £24 a year, being the interest, at 4 per

cent, of £600 lent with other monies, to the Stoken-church

Turnpike -Trust besides £5 . the interest of £1 00 bequeathed

by Miss Carr .

The office of Organist is at present filled by Miss Whitaker,a lady possessing zeal and ability in the duties which she

condescends to undertake, and a member of that highly re

spectable family resident at Bampton, whose urbanity gives

such attractions to the place inthe eyes of all those who visit it,

and especially of him who has this opportunity of acknow

ledging their friendship.

ORDER AND succnssrox or THE vrcans or BAMPTON .

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A . D . 1 401 , O ct . 28, Thomas Plym m eswode, vicar ofHea

vitree, was allowed to exchange with JohnWydelond vicar o f

B ampton [Bp. Stafford’ s Register,vol . II

,fol . See Blym

m yswode’

s epitaph ona brass inthe chancel .

A . D . 14 Sep. 23, died Thomas Kavi, A . M . vicar of

Bampton [Rawlinson MS, quoting.

from a brass now de

st royed .

A . D . 1 500, Robert Holcot vicar of Bamptondied this year,

onOct. 25, as appears by his epitaph ona brass inthe chancel .

A . D . 1 534, JohnDotyn, B . M . vicar of Bampton. Wood,

v. I,p . 686 ]

Inthe RawlinsonMS . I find this notice Inthat Vicarage

house, which belonged to Mr . Thomas Cooke, (since to Dr. Phil

lips, who married his daughter and heir) I find somewhere this

written AN . 1 456 JOHANNES DOTYN VICARIUS . Either this

date isw rong, and should be 1 556,or there was a previous

JohnDotynvicar of Bampton.

A . D . 1 547, April 22 . Edm und Crispin,was instituted to

one of the vicarages of Bampton,vacant by the death of John

Dyer the last incumbent .

A s a specimenof the form of institution, I give the follow

ing extract from the l st Institution-book of the Diocese of

Oxford, page 1 23 .

Vicesim o tert io die mensis Aprilis, anno DoVICARIA mini 1 547, magister Edmundus Cryspincle

DE riens,ad vicar i am perpetuam ecclesiae paro

BAMPTON . chialis de Bampton Oxoniensis diocesis permortem naturalem Magistri Johannis Dyer

ultimi incum bentis ibidem vacantem ad praesentationom decam

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et capituli ecclesiae cathedralis beati Petri Exoniensis patronorum ejusdem adm issus fuit, ac vicarius ineadem legitime institutus

,et recepta ejus legitima obedientia scriptum erat domino

archidiacono Oxon. pro inductions ejusdem .

A . D . 1 548, March 7 . JohnDayle, by the resignationofEd

mund Crispin, M . A .

Inthe entry at page 1 30 of the 2nd Institution-book the

deanand Chapter of Exeter are called veri et z'

ndubita ti diam

vica ii cepatroni the true and undoubted patrons of the said

church.

A . D . 1 549, Jan. 3 1 . Thomas Yonge,B . C . L . by the resig.

nationof Robert Al lington.

A . D . 1 558, Feb. 28 . Henry Dotynge by the resignationof

JohnDotynge.

RAWLINSON MS .

“ Carved 0 11 the screen inMr. Cooke’ s

Hall,— 1 5 7 7, HEN . DOTYN V ICAR IUS . He was M . A .,some

time fellow of Exeter College, and perhaps nephew to the for

m er . A scending into a chamber, was cut instone, in1 664,

this,as wel l as the above-mentioned, HEN . Dor rN

,V ICAR IUS

1 57 7 .

Ona garden-wall, incap . [i. e. in capita l letters] 1 56 9 vi

CAR I . HENa rcus DOTYN succnssonJo . DOTYN PATKU I svr H UNCMURUM surs UPTA [should be sno sc rim ] PERFECI ’I‘.

A . D . 1 56 1, Sept . 5 . William Leveson

,by the death ofWal

terWright,D . C . L . The entry inthe Institution-book (p .

is as follows

Willelmus Levesonclericus ad vie . pe

vqyi . eccl . par. de B am p

tonOxon. dioc . per mortem naturalem alteri Wright legumr

xxxviii H ISTORY O F BAMPTON.

doctoris, et incumb. ibid . jam vacantem ,ad collationem rever

endissim i patris Mattheei Cantuariensis archiep. Lendini admissus et institutus die quinto mensis Septem bris A . D . 156 1 et

regni Elizabethae nunc reginae quarto . die Sabbati,

videlicet 1 9 die ejusdem mensis,anno Domini praedicto, virtute

mandati dioti Reverendissimi patris indicta eccle sia parochialide B amptoncum suis juribus et pertinentiis st inult . in'ductus

fui t anno Reginae Elizabethae praedicto.

A . D . 1 569, Feb. 24 [secum lum computa timzem ecclesiae

Anglicans ] Thomas Fisher,by the death of Thomas

Yonge.

Inthe Institution-book [p. 249] the dean and chapter are

againstyled the veros et indubitatos (ut asserunt,) &c.

A . D . 1 580 [about] JohnHowsenVic . of Bam . about 1 580

H —JohuHowsen,D . D . vic . of Brightwell

,about 1 6 1 0 consce.

Bishop of Oxford 1 6 1 8 . [Steele, andWood, v . I . p .

A . D . 1 601 , Aug. 1 0, [Extract from the parish Register of

Black -Boreton] Mr . JohnHowsen,one of the vicars of B am p

tonand Elizabeth Floyd of the same parish, were married in

this parish church the tenth day of August 1 6 01 by Mr. John

King A rchdeaconof Nottingham .

A . D . 1 5 81 . JohnUnderhill, B . D . also vicar of Witneyand consce. Bp. of Ox. Dec. 8, 1 589. [Steele, andWood,

1 ,

A . D . 1 6 1 4,July 1 7 . John Prideaux

,D . D . by death of

Henry Walm esley.

A . D . 1 6 1 7 , July 9 . Antony B lincowe, Legum Doctor, by

the death of Mr . Worm eseye .

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A . D . 1 620 . Edw . Wilson,B . D . about 1 620 . B alliofergus,

p . [Gough MSS, No .

InRym er’ s Foedera, Vol . VII I, pt . 3, page 34, is a dispensa

tion,dated Sep. 20, 1 628 empowering Edwardus Wilson,

8 . T. B .

,to hold the Vicarage of Bamptontogether with the

rectory of Stonefield.

A . D . 1 634, July 5 . William Hodges, M . A ., by the resig

nationof JohnPrideaux.

W. Hodges compounds for first fruits in the 1 0th year of

Charles I, 1 6 34 . [B . Willis] .

William Hodges was of Exeter College and in1 66 1 became

D . D . onMay 30, 1645 was admitted to the dignity ofArchdea

conofNorthamptonby Dr. Prideaux, Bishop of that see, whose

daughter he had married some time before . There seems to be

s ome ground for believing that he lost the Vicarage of Bampton

onthe ordinance concerning pluralities . He was also rector of

Ripple inWorcesters hire and kept that living during the whole

period of the commonwealth . He died in1 676 — [Walker in

his account of the Worcestershire clergy] .

Steele,quoting from Wood, 1 1, p . 824, andKennet

’ s Regist .

and Chron. says W. Hodges died Aug. 1 6 75 and was buried in

the church of Bampton.

A . D . 1 648,JohnOsborne, first portion— Rous Clopton

,third

portion, compound for first-fruits this y ear . [B . Willis] .

Rous Cloptonabout 1 640 [Walker,Pt . II, p .

JohnO sborne M . A . about 1 642,ejected 1 662 . [Wcod, II,

a

x1 HISTORY O F BAMPTO N .

A . D . 1 658,Rob . Sawer, 3 td porticn, and Samuel Birch, 2nd

portion, compound for fir st fruits [B . Willis] .

Of the second of these gentlem anI find the following notice

inthe Noneonform ist’ s memorial by Dr . Calam y, edit. Palmer .1 775 . vol. II

,p.3 02

,

The Rev. Samuel Birch,M . A .

,of Corpus

Oxon, one of the 3 vicars of Bampton,was silenced by the act

of uniformity in1 6 62, although he had formerly not only (touse his ownwords) utterly refused all com pliance with the wickedness of the army under Crom well, (opposing their mostrighteous and horrid practices) about King andparliam ent

,but

had givenwhat assistance he could to the King, whenhe cameto Scotland . He was ejected Aug. 24, 1 662, [B . Willis’sMS . says July 3 0] having 7 children. He first removed toShilton

,but was there much molested . In1 666 he was placed

by the gentlemen of the country ina m ansionhouse at Coatein that neighbourhood belonging to Hoard Esq . asent their sons to him for education, a service forwhich he waspeculiarly qualified, and he remained there till the time of hisdeath

,having his house continually full of young nobility and

gentry from many parts of the nation. F ourteenof those thathad beenhi s scholars

,were inone sessionof parliament, inthe

reignof Q ueenAnne ; and scim e of the chief of her ministers ofstate were of that number . He

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died Jan. 22, 1 668, and wasburied at Shilton.

A . D . 1 660,Thomas Cook, B . D . ob . Apr . 6, 1 669 . He was

also archdeaconof Salop . [Steele andWood, I, p .

A . D . 1 662, Dec. 23 . Joseph Maynard .

A . D . 1 669,Nov. 1 5

,Wil liam Burley, M . A .

,by the rasig

nationofDr . Edward Cotton.

A . D . 1 669,StephenPhillips, M . A . afterwards D . D . by the

death of Tho . Cook . S . Phillips was also archdeaconof Salop,and died 1 6 84 [Steele andWood,II, p . 8 78]

Dr.StephenPhillips vicar of Bamptonand archdeaconof

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Salop, is less knownto fame thanhis sonJohn, the poet, whowas bornhere in1 6 76 . Thi s young m an received his gramm atical educationinWestminster School

,from whence he was

elected to Christ’ s Church, Oxford . He was designed for thestudy of physio, to which he was naturally led by his love ofbotany, and the weakness of his const1tut ion; for he seldomknew what it was to enjoy a day

’ s health . He was so,

ex

of the Greek and LatinClassics,that he entered

into their spirit and way of writing ina manner superior to allwho had gone before him . The natural sweetness of his temper and the ea sy affability, wherewith he treated every person,endeared him to all the gentlemeninthe co llege .

Dr. A ldrich, at that time deanof Christ’ s Church

,was much

addicted to smoking tobacco and one morning,Mr. Phillips

andMr . Smith his chum, laid a wager, that, if one of themwould go at that moment and call upon the dean

, hewould find him smoking. Mr. Phillips was the person whotook the affirmative side of the question, and, whenhe came tothe dean’ s apartment, the doctor asked him his business Towhom he answered inthat simple manner, to which he was accustomed from his infancy, telling the nature of the wager

,

and that he was come there to have it decided . Mr . Philips”said the dean, with the greatest good-nature, youhave lostyour wager, for I am not smoking, but filling m y pipe .

”His poem

,entitled “

the Splendid Shilling raised his fameto such a degree, that lord Harcourt employed him to write aoem onthe battle of Blenheim,

inoppositionto that composedy Mr . Addi son, onthe same subject . This poem was held inmuch estim ation, but his best poem is always considered to bethat which he composed onCyder, and is anexcellent imitationof the style of Virgil

’sGeorgics .

Phillips intended to write a poem onthe Last Judgement, as

we are told by Mr. Smith . His continued ill state of health atlast brought ona consumption, which put a period to his lifeat Hereford, onthe 15th of February 1 708, in the 32nd yearof his age. He was buried inthe cathedral of that city, but amonument has beensince erected to his memory inWestm inster abbey.

New British Traveller, published under the inspect ionorGeo. Aug.Walpole esq . fol.

London, 1 784.

xiii HISTORY O F BAMPTON .

A . D . 1 676, Jan. 5 . Thomas Snell,S . T. B . by the death of

Thomas Hodges .

A . D . 1 684, Jan. 1 6 [style Anglico .] Thomas Snell, by the

death of StephenPhillips,S . T. P .

A . D . 1 707, March 2 . JohnEdm onds,M. A . by the resig

nationof A rthur Bury, S . T. P

A . D ; 1 714, Feb. 1 1 . Thomas Snell

,by the resignation of

Thomas Snell senior .

A . D . 1 7 1 8 . April 1 7 . William Stephens, M . A ., by the

death of Thomas Snell senior.

A . D . 1 724, Aug. 1 8 . JohnEdmonds,M . A . per cessionem

Will . Stephens .

Steele has “ JohnEdmonds 1 725 . William Stevens 1 728 .

Snell 1 731 . which is quite at variance with the Institution

book . Steele has William Reynolds M . A . 1 742 .

A . D . 1 743 , Aug. 7 . William Reynolds, M . A . to the por

tionformerly inthe possessionof StephenPhillips, but latelyof Thomas Snell

,vacant by the death of JohnEdmonds .

A . D . 1 750, Feb. 28 . Elias Taunton, M . A . to the portion

form erly inpossessionof StephenPhillips, void by the death of

William Reynolds .

A . D . 1 750, March 2 : John Land, M . A . by the death of

William Reynolds :

A . D. 1 757, July 23 . Joseph Am phlett, D . C . L . by the

death of JohnLand.

A . D . 1 758, March 25 . Charles Hawtrey the younger,

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vestry-room of the parish Church . They consist of 1 2 volume s

infolio and 2 inquarto . These last,together with one of the

folios, contain the entries of baptisms,weddings

, and burials

pertaining to the church of Shifford, and have beenkept of

late years, with the rest of the Registers, inthe mother-church

of Bampton. The whole series are ticketed with labels, num

bered from 1 to 1 4,for the convenience of reference. We will

briefly describe them inorder.

No . 1 . A folio volume, of parchment, and inrather a dila

pidated condition. Each page is divided indouble columns,

and the ink is much faded, fr om age, inseveral parts of the

volume,particularly at the beginning. The first entries refer

to Christenings, and extend from October, A . D . 1 53 8 to

August 1 693 . These are partly inLatinand partly inEnglish,thus

,

1 669, Oct . 9, Mary Rickets, fia [filia] Daniel .

Oct . 28, Anthony et Thomas Wenman, filii Anthony .

thentwo leaves of “burrials,from A . D . 1 692 to 1 694

,but not

inorder : after which are 5 leaves of “Marriages from Oct,

A. D . 1 53 8, to Dec . 24,A . D . 1 691 . Then occur several

leaves of burials and Christenings from 1 685 to 1 6 91 , entered

confusedly at the end of which is the following sentence

Homo quilibet est pars com munitatis . Every particularpersonis part of the Whole state thi s is the true reason, whythe king takes so precise an account of the death even of thebasest subject, because him selfe and the whole kingdom e hadinterest inhim .

A s the hand-writing, inwhich this morsel of political wisdom

HISTORY O F BAMPTON . xlv

has beenhanded downto posterity, is of a more recent date than

the latest of the entries contained in the volume, it must have

been writtensince James the Second was expelled by his son

ih -law William the Third .

The rest of the volume is occupied with “ Burialls, from

Oct . A . D . 1 53 8, to May 1 7, 1 6 85, inwhich the Latinwords‘ vidua,

’ ‘filius,

’

and ‘filia,

’ occur frequently, as before .

On the last page of the book is the following curious

note

Whereas the Right Worpll : Sr : Thomas Hord t t .

and his worthy lady, haning uponvndeniable evidence, made itapeara that they are not inbodily health, and therefore A ccording to the lawc inthat cas e provided have obtained a Licenceto eat flesh during the time of their Indisposition of bodiesBut since the Date of Eight dayes allowed by the statute is expired, and they are still ina Sickly Condition. Vpontheir request the sayd licence is longer indulged them to dress Fleshand accordingly Registered .

March 1 8 th : 1 6 6 0 . Will . Standard .

The date of Gualter Castles licence, Clark and Sextonbeingexpired, was also prorogued .

But the good knight seems not long to have enjoyed the ia

dulgence which the Church allowed him,for inthe list of buri

als for the year 1 66 2, we find the following entry Jan. 3 1 .

S ir Thoma s Hord, about one year and nine months after the

date of the licence above-mentioned !

N o . 2 . a folio, also of parchment, and writtenfor the most

part in double columns . On the first leaf is the following

note

Dec . 3,1 7 50 . By appointment of ye Revd. Mr . Wm . Rey

nolds and ye Revd . Mr . Tho Snell,Edward Skinner was con

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xlvi HISTO RY O F BAMPTO N .

stituted Clerk of the parish of Bamptoninye room of Wm .

Andrews deceased .

”The first part of the book contains Christenings from Jan. 3 ,

A . D . D . 1 762, in30 folios . Thenfollow Mar

ri ages from April 26, A . D . 1 685 toO ct . 8,1 753, (occupying fo

lios 1— 7 ) — Baptisms from March 3, A . D . 1 762, to Feb. 21,

A . D . 1 779, ( folios 8 to 1 8 ) Bur ials from Jan. 6,A . D

1 6 85,to July 1 5, 1 780 (fol . 1 to Onthe last leaf is

the following note

August 1 9, 1 76 7 . JohnWright o f A ston having beenduly elected to succeed Thomas Fox lately deceased, as ParishClerk, was approved of by us . J . Amphlett . Vicar . C . Hawtrey. Vicar .

Wm . Cecil, Churchwarden.

Inthis register— about the middle of the volume,— the name

of the officiating Clergyman begins to be annexed to the eu

tries . The first occurs in the Burials,1 758, Oct . 1 3 . Wm .

Wiggins . C'

. H . [for Charles Hawtrey]; The other names

that occur are J . Amphlett C . Poyntz, C1.

N o . 3 . A folio volume, of vellum, writtenacross the whole

page and begunat both ends . A t the beginning are Bur ials

from May to Dec. 24,1 81 2 .

At the end are Baptisms from 1 7 79 to 1 81 2 .

No . 4 . Folio of paper intwo parts, the first of which con

tains, throughout, printed form s for the entry ofmarriages , and

is entitled A Register-book for marriages &c . printed for

Joseph Fox, &c . M . DCC . LIV. The entries extend from

1 754' to 1 783 .

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Between the first and second parts are several entries of

Bannes of marriage,wholly in Manuscript, from 1 790 to

1 795 .

Part 2 is entitled A Register-Book for the publication

of Bannes of Marriage &c . MDCCLIV ,and contains entries

from 1 754 to 1 789 .

No 5 . folio— paper— wholly inmanuscript—! not incolum ns

— each leaf has six three-penny stamps impres sed onthe outer

margin,and each entry is made opposite to one of the stamps .

The volum e contains Baptisms from Oct . 5 . 1 7 83 to Nov . 1 9,

1 7 86 Burials from Oct. 1 7, 1 783 (at page 3 9) to Dec . 22,

1 7 86— and Marriages from O ct . 6,1 783 to Nov . 1 6

, 1 7 86 .

No 6 .

- fo lio -paper~ —stamped as No 5,contains

Baptisms from Dec . 2 7, 1 786, to May 29, 1 791— Burials

from Jan. 1 3, 1 78 7, to Dec. 20, 1 79 1— andMarriages from

Jan. 3 1,1 78 7 to Oct . 1 6, 1 7 91— These entries are much con

fused, as several instances occur of Baptisms and Burials being

entered inthe same page .

No 7 . a paper pamphlet containing Burial s from July 26 ,1 791 to July 23 , 1 795 .

At the beginning of the book is the following note This

register for burials bought by J . Shingleton,Oct 8

,1 791 , price

£1 . 4 . 0 . and yet the volume conta ins only four leaves, each

of which has 20 three-penny stamps impressed uponit

No 8 . paper— folio Register of baptisms,

”printed formsthr oughout— extending from Jan. 1 3, 1 8 1 3 to Dec . 1 2

, 1 837 .

A t the beginning of the volume is the Marriage Act, LIInd

xlviii HISTORY O F BAMPTON .

of George 1 11, chap. cxlvi and on the first leaf of the

book is the following note inMS .

Memorandum— The origin of the name of MOUNT-OWENwas as follows : Some persons were passing by, when thecottage at the t0p of the Hillwas inbuilding ; among whomwas an eccentric old shoemaker named John Neal

,and he

was asked to give it a title . He said it must be calledMount Owen

,the Rev. Hugh Owen being vicar of one of

the portions of Bampton at that tim e .

”

No . 9 .

“ The Register -book for births,Christenings

,&c .

conformable to anA ct of the 23rd of Geo : 1 11,&c— stam ped

on the edges,as before

,contains— Baptisms from June

1 9, 1 79 1 to Aug. 7 , l 7 95,—then -Marriages from Dec . 5

,

1 79 1 to Nov . 1 9,1 8 1 0 .

—1n the beginning of the book

is the note : “This book bought by J . Shingleton, June 1 2,1 79 1 . price £5 . 0 . 0 .

N o . 1 0 . Register -book for Marri ages &c . contains entries

from Jan. 1 4,1 8 1 1 to Dec . 1 4

,1 8 1 2

,which occupy only

four or five leaves, the rest of the volume being blank

forms .

N o . 1 1 .

“ Register of m arriages &c . from Jan. 1 8,1 8 1 3

to June 20, 1 83 7 . The last half of the volum e is blank .

N o . 1 2 .

“ Register of Marnages inthe Chapelry of Shifford

&c . from April 22, 1 81 3, to Oct . 27, 1 835 ; occupying onlysevenor eight leaves the rest of the volume is blank .

N o. 1 3 . A quarto volume, of parchment, containing at the

beginning Baptisms inShifford church from Oct . 23, 1 783 to

Dec . 27, 1 8 1 2 . At the end of the volume are Burials from

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Oct . 23, 1 783 , to Dec . 23,1 8 1 1 , with the following note an

nexed.

Jan. 1,1 8 1 1 . The register of the buria ls having been

irregularly kept during the operationof the tax on bonds, and

m any of the nam es having been obliterated by the damp, asmany as were legible, were collected together, and entered intothis book . We

,whose names are undersigned

,have carefully

collated the above list with the old book,and found it a faithful

copy. G . RICHARDS,vicar

,Edw. Lindsey, JohnTownsend ,

Thomas Bartlett .”The greater part of the volume is blank .

No . 1 4 . A paper volume inquarto, containing, at the begin

ning,Baptisms, Burials, andMarriages from 1 7 83 to 1 787, m ix

ed together ingreat confusion inthe latter part of the volume,

beginning at the end,and with the book inverted, are banns

of marriage from 1 7 85 to 1 8 1 1 .

The registers, which belong to a later period thanthe forego

ing, are kept by the clerk with the cushions and other furni ture

of the church ina large deal chest .

9 . O F THE VESTRY-BO O KS .

The Vestry-books of the parish,which are no longer inuse

,

are kept inthe large ironchest,together with deeds concerning

the public charities and other matters, of which we shall speak

more fully hereafter . The last vestry-book,still inuse

,is

kept in the deal chest with the registers and church

cushions .

The following account of these books and extract from their

HISTO RY O F BAMPTO N .

contents m ay perhaps be amusing to some of m y readers who

take interest inparochial matters .

No . 1 . contains minutes of select vestries from Jan. 28, 1 822,

to Feb. 2 7, 1 828, concerning paupers, loans made to ditto,and promise to repay &c .

2 . A ccounts of paupers .

3 . Overseers’ book of Bampton and Weald,bought

Ap. 29,1 7 1 8, contains entries from May 1 1

,1 7 1 8, to

1 734 .

On the back of the fir st leaf is the following 111m

randum

April 3rd, 1 7 19 . It was agreed by us with JohnCarter thatin consideration of clearing the church from sparrows andpigeons

,he shall receive from the churchwarden ten shillings

at present,and five shillings hereafter yearly, to be paid on

Easter Tuesday : Provided that, if at any time hereafter therebe just com plaint of his neglect to destroy them,

he shall becontent to receive nothing of this yearly stipend .

Tho . Snell,Will . Stephens Vicars

Jo . Sandelands, Ralph Fowler, Tho. Hamersley, JohnCarter .

4 . A ccounts of the charity-lands from 1 786 to 1 82 1

Onthe first leaf is the following

The Charity Lands lett for three years, entered onLady-day1 78 7 .

The Moor-close and Lake Reddy close to Mr . Shingletonat 53 1 2 per ann.

The close (lately occupied per Mr . Hawtrey) to B . Greenat £3 1 0 .

The upper close to R . Clarke at it 9 1 0 0 .

The estate to A ppletonat 20 .

The three years exp ired Ap. 5th,1 790, goes on at the Old'

Rent . April 29th 1 790 .

A t the end of the book (inverted) is the following

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40 shillings,which is to be left as a caution till the clock is

further p roved . JOHN DEWE Richard Coxeter — RichardMalan Ra . Fowler Richard Sandelands JohnJohnson John Pawling Richard Hoskins WilliamPryor .

Oct . 3,1 741 . A t a vestry this day here held it was una

nim ously agreed to allow the following sums to the ringersfor ringing on the follow ing days : viz : on the king’ s birthday 1 0 shi llings, on the coronation-day 1 0 shillings, on gunpowder treason 1 5 shillings

,on the 29 th day of May 1 0

shillings, and it was further ordered that the church-wardensshould give the said money to the ringers to di spose of asthey shall think proper . And there were present J . Dewe

J . N abbs W .Lissett Hen.Church Ric . FowRich . Malan D .Watts E . Seary J .Pawlin

— E.Aweberry Sam . Johnson Jos . Hoskins ~ -Fra .

Sims .Sept . the 29th, 1 742 . By virtue of a facultv empower

ing the ministers and church -wardens,bearing date 1 725, to

dispose of the front-seats in the gallery inthe north isle, bei t observed

,that the right honorable Lord Coventry hath given

1 0 shillings to the churchwardens for the use of the parish,

for a third seat from Mr . Coxeter’

s gallery in the frontabove mentioned . WITNESS hereto Tho . Snell . vicar — DavidCarpenter, churchwarden.

A greeable to the circumstances above,Thomas Jeeves

,of

A ston,purchased of the churchwardenof the same

,one seat

next to the door of the wing, price,to be an

nexed to the house in Lew, late the property of Wm .

Jeeves .p

A lso,Thomas Townsend, of A ston, pur chased the second

seat from the doo r, of the churchwarden thereof upon thesame terms as above, to be annexed to ‘ his dwelling-house.

Thom as Snell, vicar Thomas Bartlett,Churchwarden:

Whereas five seats or places are already purchased in thefront gallery in the north isle ; there remains but one m oreto be di sposed of, now left to the choice of Edward Collingwood or his landlord, hearing date as above .

Mr . Middleton, one of the churchwardens of this parishhaving had notice to produce the key of the chest in the

vestry, in order to inspect the deeds and writings belongingto the free school, andnot attending or producing the same

HISTORY O F BAMPTON . liii

We,whose names are hereunto subscribed, investry assembled

do hereby order and require the said Mr . Middleton to produce the key or keys of the said chest, inhis custody,next Sunday after Evening Service . W ITNESS our hands this 1 5th dayof Sept . 1 7 54 — Tho . Snell E . Taunton Gas . Frederick War. Lisset Jas . Elly —JohnMinchin Pe

ter Hill John Collingwood The . Fox Joseph Rogers .

2 2d Sept . 1 754. Ordered by the parishioners now present,that Mr . Gas coigne Frederic have liberty, within the spaceof one month from this time

,to inspect the deeds and

tings in the parish chest a t all seasonable times, in the

presence of the churchwardens, or any two of them,and

such other of the parishioners as shall think fit to a ttend.

THO . SNELL John Land E. Taunton J .

Nabbs— J . Dewe Rich . Sandelands .

March 7 , 1 756 . It is this day agreed by vestry to take awarrant and take Wm . Ellieksanders to justice for goingfrom hi s family. Mr. Andrew ha t e threa tened the preasantChurch -wardens with a sute for opening the head of Wm .

Carter killed with a waggon; and the preasant inhabitantshave agreed to stand the action against the same . The .

Snell,—&c .

Sep. 28, 1 760 . R i s this day agreed, on account of thenumber of mad dogs lately appearing in this parish

, and ofthe numbers that are suspected to have been hit, that everypersonthat shall kill his dog and produce it dead before the

overseer of the poor, shall receive of the said overseer for thesame one shilling ; and that a personbe likewise appointed at

the parish expense to shee t or destroy all such dogs as shallbe found at large, after notice given to tie them up, for the.space of six weeks, and that the parish shall indemnify suchpersons, employed as above, for doing the same, and tha t moreover the personso employed shall have one shilling for everydog that he shall shoot o r destroy. E. Taunton- C .

Hawtrey-J . Amphlett— R . Sandelands - Hen. Church— VVilliam Miller— JohnCarpenter— Peter Hill— Joseph Andrews .Jan. 1 7 , 1 762 . Ordered that no b read be givento any per

sonwho does not attend divine se rvice .

H

liv HISTORY O F BAMPTO N .

Aug. 2 1,1 763 . It i s agreed at a vestry this day that Mr .

Stevens, attorney at law, be desired to draw up a complaint, to

be laid before the bishop,against the Rev. Mr . Charles Haw

trey for refusing to attend the corpses of this parish into thechurch, and read the service

,as by the rubric is appointed

and it is agreed likewise,that all expenses attending the same

be discharged by the churchwardens . Tho . Middleton— Rob.

Yeatman— and thirty two other names .Oct . 23 , 1 7 68 . Public notice having been given in the

church for this purpose, it is agreed, resolved and ordered thata workhouse

,capable of employing and lodging sixty persons

or more, with preper outbuildings and conveniencies, be fort hwith erected and built inRosemary lane for the reception ofthe poor of Bam ptonandWeald

,and the trustees of Mrs . Ma

ry Dewe’ s charity having agreed to pay the expenses of the

workmanship of such erections and buildings, and the occup iers of lands inBamptonandWeald having agreed to performand do the carriage of all necessary m aterials

,it is further agreed

,

resolved and ordered,tha t such timber, as will be necessary for

such erections and buildings, now standing inthe Poor’ s closes

inLew, BamptonandWeald, be forthwith felled and cut down

for that purpose,and the residue of the expense of the o ther

materials,and of completing the said buildings, and of furnish

ing the same, be raised by subscription, to which the lords ofthe manors are requested to contribute, and that such partthereof, as shall not be so raised

,be paid out of the poor’ s

rates of Bamptonand VVeald.

—J . AMPHLETT, vicar— &c .

N . B . Many other notices occur further on 1 11 the volume

concerning the building, leasing, -and managem ent of the work

house .

Jan. 1 , 1 76 8 . Inregard to the contagious feavers, whichnow rages inthis parish, we, whose names are hereunto sub

scribed,do think it necessary, andhereby agree, that the School

house,being now vacant, shall be forthwith taken to put such

persons inthat are sick, and that proper care be takenof them,

and that three or four pairs of blankets be bought for the useof the s ick

,and that Eliz . Hill, or, if she refuses, another pro

per personbe appointed to nurse and take care of them . Gas .Frederick,

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April 1 5 , 1 7 70 . Ordered that the churchwardens do deliver to Mr Frederick the several deeds and writings inthechur ch-chest, inorder that the same be sorted, and tha t thesevera l charities belonging to the parish m ay be better knownand carried into execution— Edw. Church —&c .

Sept . 8,1 7 7 1 . Ordered that new feoffments be made of the

several charity-lands belonging to this parish, by the heirs of thesurviving feoffees or trustees, to new trustees or feoffees, upontrust

,for the several purposes, for which the said lands are li

m ited,conveyed or app ropriated, the former feoffees or trus tees

being dead .

Ordered that notice be givento the several tenants or ocenpiers ofthe cha rity-lands

,belonging to this parish

,by the church

wardens and overseers thereof to quit the several lands intheirposses sionat Lady-day next, and that the said lands be let byauctiononpublic notice to be previously given inthe churchfor that purpose .

Ordered that the churchwardens and overseers do deliver intothe vestry lists of the several persons, to whom the bread andchari ty-m oney, givento be distributed among the poor of thepari sh, shall be given, inorder tha t the sam e m ay be app rovedof by the vestry before the same be distributed .

Ordered that the King’ s Bench and Marshalsea mone shallnot

,for the future

,be paid out of the rents of the church- land .

Gas . Frederick &c .

Oct . 6,1 7 7 1 . Under this date are lists of trustees chosen

to be enfeoffed of the following charity- lands .

The 2 Moor- closes (now inone) and Lake Reddy.

B rookfas t furlong close and Moor- closes .The A ppletonestate .

The Sc hool-closes .Close-land and commons at Lew, and the Weald closes and

CO IIIIIIO IIS .

A pril 26, 1 7 72 . Ordered unanimously that the churchwardensand overseers of Bampton and Weald do enter into articles

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with Mr. Edw. Herring, late of Witney, for the maintaining thepoor of BamptonandWeald for three years from the 1 1 th dayof May next, at the yearly sum of 1 7 0, payable according to ,

the draft of articles and under certain rules and orders,which

have beenprepared for that purpose and the terms and condition mentioned in the said articles . Gas . Frederick&c .

O ct. 1 8, 1 7 72 . Notice having beengiveninthe church onSunday last for the churchwardens since the year 1 76 8 to attend this day, and deliver inand pass their accounts

,which they

have neglected to do,Ordered that

,unless they do deliver in

and pass their accounts onSunday next, after evening-service,

a prosecutionbe commenced against such churchwardens at thecharge of the parish . Gas . Frederick

,&c .

March 23,1 774 . Whereas public notice was givenon Sun

day last for a vestry to be held this day at 4 o’clock intheafternoon

,inorder to consult about the times

,whenit will he

most convenient for the inhabitants of Bamptonto be excusedfrom being called forth to perform their statute-duty, according to the indulgence, giventhem by anact passed in the lastsessionof Parliament for the “ Amendment and preservationof the public highways of this kingdom,

”we

,whose names

a re hereunto subscribed being assembled investry for the saidpurpose, do therefore agree

,as well for ourselves as in behalf

of the rest of the parishioners of Bampton aforesaid, to takethe benefit of the indulgence of three m onths givenus by thesaid Act for not performing our statute-duty in. And we

do fix and appoint the said 3 months at the times following,

viz that the said inhabitants shall not be called upon to perform such duty between the 8th day of A pril, and the 8 th

day of May, which we consider as the seed -m onth,nor be

tween the 25 th day of June and the 25 th day of July,which we c onsider as the hay

-harvest-month, nor betweenthe 22nd day of August and the 22nd day of September,which we consider as the corn harves t ' month . Wm . Ro

berts — &c .

A pril 1 2, 1 7 75 . Whereas it appears from the accountsof Mr . Lisset, treasurer of the charity- lands

,belonging to

the poor of Bamptonand Weald,that, uponthe late advance

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of the rents of the said charity-lands, the quantity of bread tobe di stributed among the poor of the said parish m ay hé con

siderably increased It is hereby ordered that 6 6 two -pennyloaves be weekly di stributed amongst the said poor at the usualtime after divine service onevery Sunday, inm anner following,a two-penny loaf every week to each of the poor persons, whosenames are mentioned inthe list this day signed by us, againstwhose names the letter W is set, and one two-penny loaf everyother week to each of the other poor persons mentioned inthissaid lis t : but incase any of the said poor shall neglect to attenddivine service onany of the said Sundays, not being hinderedby sickness, he or she or they, so absenting themselves, shallforfeit the said bread . J . Manda

May 4th, 1 77 7 . Wh ereas JohnHank s and James Saunders,

Joseph Orpwood, andWilliam Brooks have taken possessionof certaintenements, commons and hereditaments belonging tothe parish of Bampton, being churchlands, the rents whereofare to be applied to the repair of the church of Bamptonaforesaid, and refuse to deliver up the possessionthereof, or to payany rent for the same we, trustees of the said premises for thepurpose aforesaid, considering it as our duty to recover possessionof the said premises, do hereby resolve that prosecutionsbe immediately commenced ag ainst the persons who keeppossessionof the said premises, and that Mr . John Leake

,

attorney-at-law, be employed to carry onsuch prosecution. JohnMander, &c .

Eight wri tings, belonging to Lew estate, was delivered toMr . Leake, the 1 l th May, 1 777, in order to have a casedrawnthereonfor the opinionof counsel .

A s the practice of cutting and ‘ stealing wood, &c . is now

become notorious and shameful, and calls aloud for our mostvigorous efforts insuppressing so growing anevil

, we, the principal occupiers of the lands inBampton and Weald

,now in

Vestry assembled, do order that all pers ons, who shall hereafterbe detected incutting, taking, and carrying away any sort ofhedge-wood, damaging or destroying any timber-trees, or thelops or tops thereof, without the consent of the owner orowners, or shall wilfully break downany gates, stiles, post, orrails, &c. from any of the inclosed lands within the liberties

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of Bampton and Weald, shall be punished to the utmostseverity of the law . Andinorder the m ore easy to detect andbring to justice all persons concerned herein

,we do hereby

promi se a reward of half-a-guinea to any one who shall fromtime to time, and at all times hereafter, be the means of convicting all such offenders as aforesaid

,to be forthwith paid by

the Overseers,or either of them andwe do further order that

allother theexpenses attending the detectingandbringingto justicesuch persons as aforesaid shall be likewise paid by the Overseers, and placed intheir accounts, as Witness our hands this9th day of Dec., inthe year of our Lord 1 78 1— 1 ANDREWS

-Wm . Roberts — &c .

A t a vestry held the 2nd day of June, 1 78° ordered thatfive shillings be taken from the ringing-money, and given tothe choir of singers, and that the farther sum of one guineaper year be added to the said sum to be paid by the

church-wardens S . JOHNSON, Vicar Wm . Church, Curate—&e.

A t the same time agreed that the bell, called the Corfue hell,he rung, as usual, at 8 o

’ clock inthe evening all the year, andat 4 O

’ clock inthe morning during the summer half-year, vizfrom Lady-day to Michaelmas .

Ord investry, this 1 8th day of June 1 7 86, that it shalt:be decently railed with oak across the chancel near the conimunion-table. C . Hawtrey, Vicar . Wm . Hawkins, W. Church,Wm . Lissett, Jona . Am att,W : King, Wm . Roberts

,Edw,

July 1 1 1 786 . A vestry was then. held, pursuant to duenotice givenfor that purpose, to . resolve onthe best mode ofletting the church and charity-estates belonging to this parish .

Present the Rev. Charles Hawtrey, J0 8 . Andrews, Wm .

Roberts, J . Bantin, Jos . Shingleton, Wm . Lisset, Rob . Yeat

m an, JohnMander .

Resolved that the best mode of letting the said church and

charity-estates, infuture, wil l be by public auction, uponleasesfor a term not exceeding 7 years, with proper covenants forthe tenants to manure, keep up the mounds, and upon suchother terms as shall be expressed inthe conditions of the saidauction, to be settled by the majority of the Trustees, previous

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ascertaininwhat fund or funds,or what other securities, the

said moneys are invested, and to institute such proceedingsa t law or inequity as he shall be directed by the two residentvicars and the churchwardens and overseers or the m ajor partof them,

for restoring,replacing

,recovering

,or securing the

said charity-moneys, and appointing Trustees for carrying thedirections of the different donors into execution

, (such trustees to be nominated at a vestry-meeting

,to be called for that

purpose) : and that all expenses incurred, and to be incurred ,inand about the same

,or inanywise relating thereto, to be

paid by the said parish-officers out of the poor-rate or rates ofthe said parish

,and that the parish be repaid the same out of

the interest or dividends now inarrear ofthe said charity-moneys,or out of the principal sum or sums thereof. Thos . Burrow

,

chairman. J . R .Winstanley, vicar . W . J . Walk er . W . Roberts .James Ward . JosephHall . James Clack . Rich .Clark

,JohnKnapp .

A t this same meeting it is resolved that all deeds,books

,

parchments,papers, and documents or copies thereof what

soever andwheresoever,belonging to or inany wise concerning

the interests of the parish of Bampton,be forthwith lodged

in the parish-chest, and be kept under preper locks andkeys , to be part inthe custody of the vi cars, and part in thekeeping of the churchwardens and that an immediate appli

cation be made by the parish-officers to all those, who m ayhave any such documents, as aforesaid, intheir possession, tobe kind enough to deliver up the same for the said purpose— T.

Burrow &c . [as above and moreover] Wm . Andr ews . EdwardKerwood .

Feb. 2 7, 1 829 . At a general vestry this day holdenin the

vestry-room,pur suant to due notice

,to nominate proper per

sons to be trustees of the charities givenby the late Mrs . Snell,the Mrs . Fredericks andMrs . Croft, the Rev. Thomas Burrowinthe chair RESO LVED that the vicars for the time being, thechurchwardens of Bampton and Weald for the time being,Frederick Whitaker esq.

,Rev. Wm . Jos . Walker, clerk, Jona

thanA rnatt, Wm Andrews, James Ward,and Thomas Green

are fit and proper persons to be trustees for the said charities,and they are hereby nominated accordingly. Thos . Burrow,chairman. J . R. Winstanley, vicar . James Ward . Jos . Hall .Wm . Andrews, James Rose.

HISTORY OF BAMPTON . lx i

1 0 . DEEDS IN THE GREAT IRON CHEST.

In the great iron chest, besides the old vestry-boo ks,are

contained a large num ber of deeds relating to the charities

of the town,securities for charity-money lent onmortgages,

besides other papers, of a more tem porary interest, andnow of

l ittle or no value to the parish . The principal of these

papers will be hereafter referred to, under the head of the

Public Charities of Bampton.

1 1 . O F THE PO LICE AND C IVIL GO VERNMENT O F THE TOWN.

Not many years ago the lords of the manor of Ramp

ton still continued to hold courts -leet, to appoint consta

bles, and to practise many other feudal customs which were

,general in the days Of our forefathers .

All these customs have now almost entirely disappeared

the spirit of the nineteenth century has pushed his re

forming progress even faster than the railway, and has

shown himself in Bampton,where his rival has not yet

dared to com e ! T he constables of Bampton are elected

no longer by the lords of the manor,but according to the

modernAct of Parliament, by which the duties of those officers

are now generally regulated .

The townhas a further guarantee for its tranquillity inthe

residence of two magistrates,F . Whitaker

,Esq . and the vicar

of the second portion,the Rev. Dacres A dams . There i s also

a board of Inspectors appointed by the vestry-meeting, to take

HTSTO RY O F BAIVIPTCN .

further charge‘

of the property of the inhabitants and to enlight

entheir ways by night. Happily the people Of Bampton are

famous for their honesty and single -mindedness,so that the

Inspectors, who meet once a month at the Town-Hall, donot sufier much from the weight of their public duties .

Neither do they waste much oil in the s ervice of the inhabi

t ants four lamps, affixed to the corners of the llflarkct-house,a re sufficient to shew by night that there is such a building in

exi stence and how dark besides is all around it ! The two

watchmenand the bedelfif who act under the orders of the In

spectors, are a terror to all the evil-doers

,Old and young, in

the townandneighbourhood . 1’

1 2 . THE TOWN -HALL .

In the centre of the market-place stands the TownHall,

to whi ch I have before alluded at page xxiii . Thi s build

ing was erected a few years ago by subscription. The cost

Of it amounted to about 3 00 : and the lords of the ma

nor agreed with the subscribers to convey the fee-simple of

this building to Trustees for the use ' of the inhabitants for

ever. This arrangement however has not yet been comple

ted,from the deficiency of money to pay thenecessary expenses

of the conveyance. The large upper-room is used for the

The bedel of Bam pton i s a very ancient officer . He occurs inan instrum ent of

the thir teenth century. Se e A ppend ix , N O V I .f The populationand acr eage of the d ifferent ham lets of this pari sh according to

th e las t Census are a s follows : Bam pton w ith Weal d , pop. 1 694. acr . 4070 ,— A s ton

and Cote , pop. 727, acr . 1 870 .- Brightham pton, pop. 1 20 , nor . 4 l O.

—Chimney ,pop.

36 , a cr . 620 .- Lew, pop. 1 95 , a er. 1 500 .

—S hifford , pop. 52, acr. 860 .

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m eetings of the Magistrates and of the Board'

of Inspec

tors, besides other casua l purposes, such as for itinerant exhi

bitions and the performances of public lecturers . A small

sum is raised from these sources, but hardly sufficient to

heat the room and to pay for the windows, which are bro

kenby the boys congregated in the market-place below .

1 3 . or THE m m AND PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .

It has O ften been a subject of regret with those who

desire to prom ote the innocent enjoym ents of their fellow-ci

tizens, that the people in general have so few opportuni

ties of m eeting together for recreationafter their daily labours,

or for the healthy gam es and pastimes inwhich our fathers so!

much delighted : Since the days of thePuritansu those stern

philosophers, who in avoiding one superstition rushed head

long into its opposite, equally if not still more pernicious— all

the sports and recreations of the people have been abolish

ed ; or have retired ; from public view withinthe doors of

those who can afford to pay for the gratification. It

might have been anticipated, from the primitive character of

Bampton and the adherence of its inhabitants to long esta

blished customs, that many ancient practices, elsewhere

obsolete,would here have been retained with something“

denoting their former history. But the list of these amuse

m ents and ancient pastimes is brief : and it is to be feared

that the remnants which still exist m ay ere long entirely dis

appear.

lx iv HISTORY O F BAMPTON .

The principal festival of Bampton is its annual fair,which takes place on the 26th of August

, and is a sort

of carnival to all the neighbouring villages . This fair is

of great antiquity having been originally held by William

de Valence in the early part of the thirteenth century. We

learn this fact from an Inquisition made in the rei gn of

Edward I before Jurors,who find upon their oath that the

aforesaid William de Valence hath there [ i. e . at Ramp

ton] a m arket and a FA IR ; and that he had the aforesaid

tenement by the gift of king Henry [the IIId] father

of the king Edward that now i s .”The celebrity of Bamptonfair arises from two causes, first

the large num ber of horses which are sold there, secondlyfrom the large number of children

,servants and other

persons, who flock thither from the whole neighbourhood,

and enjoy it as much as the Greeks and Romans did

their Saturnalia .

A curious tradi tionhas been handed down, connecting

Bampton fair with the church-establishment ; but as the

only notice, which I can find of it, occurs in the Raw

linson MS before ment ioned, I n give the words extracted

from that book,where it occurs under the head of

Bampton hundred,wi thout word or comment .

Fair on the 1 5th of Aug. and on the next Sunday,whether before or after the said 1 5th, the Vicar of Enshampreaches a sermon and is paid 1 3 5 . 4d. by that Vicar ofBamptonwho has the tithes of A ston that year : this, Ibelieve

,was due to the abbat Of Einsham formerly.

”

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Another seasonof festivity isWhitsuntide, whenthe Morris

dancers exhibit their saltatory powers for the amusement of the

people,and to gather a few shilllings for their ownprivate em o

lum ent . A s thes e functionaries do nothing but dance, and

thoroughly fatigue themselves before night-fall, they‘

m ay be

considered to have earned the hot suppers and mulled ale,

which probably terminate the festival, but have no farther

claim to delay the progress of this history.

A third attempt at festivity is made at Christm as, whenall

the Officials of the parish are onthe move ; bent —as are their

betters at all times —upongain, and with honest and smiling

faces claiming their Christmas boxes . A troop O f lads, also ,

as mummers parade the streets during three or four evenings in

success ion, endeavouring, but, alas with less success thantheir

great-grand-fathers, to gain admission into the houses of the

respectable inhabitants for the performance of their knightlydeeds of prowess . These are the only vestiges of ancient

public customs now remaining, and little else ever occurs,ex

cept the arrival of some stray lecturer or other performer, to

disturb the repose which generally prevails in this little

town.

14. THE HAUNTED HO USE,AND DEATH -WARN ING O F THE

WOOD FAM ILY.

Every village has its legends and tales of horror, which

after having caused awe and terror to a former generation,

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serve to create laughter and amusement to thei rposterity,

like a gigantic broad-sword of former days, whi ch having long

beenkept as the monument of some knight’ s prowess inbattle,

at length is degraded from its place and becomes a hobby to

one of his great-great -grand-children

Bamptonis not without its ghost-stories : the most remark

able of these is that of the Haunted House, inwhich a family

of the name of Wood formerly resided, and inwhich certain

praeternatural noises are said to have been heard, forewarning

the family, whenever any of its members was about todie. I

have already mentioned this house as situated on the North

side of the Chur ch, and though bearing a respectable and rather

smart appearance in front,— the effect of m odern improve

ments,it is supposed to be of corisiderable antiquity, without

which of course no ghost s tory obtains permanent credit . It is

nearly 200 years ago that the Wood family lived at Bampton,

and yet the same ghosts, who disturbed their peace, have been

suspected of having occasioned sim ilar annoyances to respect

able and credible persons still living.

Let us first hear the account which is givenof the Wood

family’5 warning, as it is told by Dr. Plott inhis Natural His

tory of Oxfordshire, chap . viii, 3, &c.

I must add also a relation, as strange as’tis true, Of the

family of one CaptainWood, late of BAMPTON, now of BriseNorton

,Captain inthe late wars for the King ; some whereof

before their deaths have had signal warnings giventhem by

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About August, 1 6 74, Mr . Basil Wood Junior, sonof Basilaforesaid, living at Exeter, heard the same kinds of knocking,at which being disturbed

,he wrote word to his father here at

Bam ptonInOxfordshire,viz

,that one Sunday he and his wife,

and her sister and his brother did distinctly hear upona tableintheir chamber

,as they stood by i t, two several knocks struck

(as it were) with a cudgel, one of them before, and the otherafter morning-prayer, a little before dinner . Which letter wasshownby Mr . Wood Senior

, (as the other knockings beforethe deaths of any that d

ied

,were before hand told) to several

neighbouring gentlemen. After which within about 1 4 daysMrs . HesterWood

,a second wife of Mr . Basil Wood, Senior,

and about a quarter of a year after, her father,Mr . Richard Lessetdied

,both at BAMPTON : since which time they have heard no

thing more as yet .”

This is the account which Dr Plott gave concerning the

Ghost of theWood family inhisnatural H istory of Oxfordshire,which was published inA . D . 1 67 1 , and the reader will find

the subject alluded to in a Catalogue of natur al and artificial

curiosities,&c . printed in the Appendix to this volume, and

copied out of a Manuscript which was probably writtensome

years before the appearance of Dr. Plott’s History.

The lovers of the marvellous will rejoice to hear that the

operations of the Ghost have not ceased, after the lapse of

nearly two hundred years, but, as the fam i ly of the Woods

have long since beendeposited with all the Capulets”inthes ilent tomb, the supernatural agent which formerly announced

the approaching death of the members of that family, must be

supposed loath to resign his occupation, and to continue his

pranks that he m ay amuse himself with the alarm which he occa

sions to his lodgers .

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Certainit is that withinthe last twenty years the same house

has borne a suspicious character, and oftencaused the sobriety

of its inm ates to be called in question for the scampering up

and downthe sta irs and other noises, which have taken place

init . A gentlemen, not very far advanced inyears, who was

occupying it as his residence, has beenknownto rise from his

bed, and to ascend to the upper-story, aroused by the sound of

footsteps as of some one pacing toand fro inthe room above

but onhis entering, the noise has ceased, and every thing par

took Of the silence and tranquillity of the night .

The sam e gentleman, or another— for the most com mon

events of history are liable to doubts and contradictions— rose

onanother occasion, inthe middle of the night, alarmed by a

noise in the garden. Forewarned is half-armed”says theproverb, but the hero Of this adventure determined to be

wholly armed for this supernatural warfare, and had the pre

cautionto carry with him a great stick or a sword— for here

againreport has spread different versions of the story— and

whenhe reached the garden,brave inconscious innocence and

fortified by the justice of his cause, he resolved to assume theoffensive. At the same instant a ghostly whiteness revealed to

him the positionwhich his foe had takenup be summoned

his resolutionand raised onhigh his weapon, which, true to

the mark,fell with unerring might, and felled to the ground

-a large sunflower.

About the same time the game-keeper of the Lord of the ma

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nor chanced to sleep alone inthi s house,andthe adventure

,which

happened to him,was fatal— not to the honest yeoman— who

is still alive after all his dangers,but to the unoffending gate

of the premises,which was riven and shattered to pieces by

the blunderbuss which the terrified yet brave retainer di scharged

in the dead of night at the ghost which he said assailed

A t a later period the owner of this fearful hous e caused the

old roof to be removed,and to be replaced by a new one. This

catastrophe was unexpected and fatal to the ghost, for

ghosts like to have a decent house over their heads, as much

as Christians —and as nearly a thous and rats were seenscam

pering off inall directions andno noises have s ince beenheard,

it is believed that the supernatural occupier must have taken

advantage of so large a marching army, to cover his own

retreat and to escape insuch good company.

1 5 . BAMPTON CA STLE .

A t a short distance to the westward -Ofthe Church andDean

ery, from which it is separated by the brook that supplies the

m ill,stand the ruins of Bampton Castle : sometimes called

Ham Court and at present form ing two farm-houses, which be

long to the Earl of Shrewsbury and Thomas Dentonesquire,

the lords of the manor . These ruins are very scanty andnu

important intheir existing state, being nothing more than the

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gateway and a fragm ent of wall furnished with loopholes and

batt lements intheusual manner of such fortresses . Yet notwith

standing its mutilated state there are two or three interesting

portions still exi sting. The groined roof of the upper chambers,

the spiral stone stair-case, and the niches in the wall s with

narrow slits for the discharge of missiles, are still curious .

It has beensaid that this castle was built by King John, but

there is no record of his having beenthe founder . Onthe con

t rary, whenthe reader shall have perused the narrative of facts

which will presently be related inchronological order concerning

the manor of Bampton and the famous family de Valence, he

will,I have no doubt, agree wi th m e inthe opinionthat Bamp

ton castle was erected inthe year 1 8 14— 1 5 by the famous

Aylmer dc Valence Earl of Pembroke . The following observa

tions on Bampton castle are from Shelton’ s Antiquities of

Oxfordshire .

InWood’ s MSS inthe AshmoleanMuseum this castle i sstated to have beenof a quadrangular form ,

moated round,

and to have had towers at each corner, and a gate-house oftower-like cha racter on the west and east sides . Of theseWood’ s imperfect representations, engraved by Michael, Burghers, and published in Hearne’ 3 Life of Wood m ay affordsome idea .

Robert Veysey, of Chimney,near Bampton, had a parchmentroll

,containing aninquisiti onconcerning the manor of Bam p

ton,inwhich m entionwas made of the bui lding of this castle

,

whenandby whom. Dr. Langbaine, sometime prevost of Q ueen’

8

college,Oxon

,had a copy of it . A fter his death Wood saw it in

the possessionof Dr . Lamplugh,bishop of Exeter .

WhenWood visited Bampton castle, on the 7 th of Septr.

1 664, near ly the whole western front was standing .

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The Castle will againoccur to notice inconnectionwith the

historical events which have happened inor near the townof

Bampton.

1 6 . LEGEND onTHE LADY-WELL

At the distance of abouti

200 yards from the north-wall of

the Castle is anancient well,so thickly covered with bushes,

that a stranger could with difficulty find it without a guide.

The field, which lies between it and the Castle,seems to

have beenform erly used as a tilting-area inwhich the garri

sonassembled for tournaments and other exhibition’ s . It is

quadrangular; and sur rounded by a moat, which is of lesser

dimensions thanthat which protects the Castle itself. Inthe

hollow ground form ed by the crumbled sides of this moat,

andnear its westernangle, the ancient well is situated .

The water i s still of the most pellucid clearness, sweet to

the taste, though much neglected, full of fallen. leaves and

haunted by vermin. The spot is sufficiently secludedto ao

count for the sacred character which it bears and to have call

ed forth those feelings of superst ition or enthusiasm, which

were common in the Middle Ages . The stone-work,with

which the sides of the Fountainare protected from the weight of

earth and trees, whose roots penetrate thr ough the crevices, is

still intolerable preservationalthough four or five hundred years

have probably passed away, since itwas erected . The littlenook

has infact, under the patronage of Our Lady of the Well,

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or abilities of the Medical Practitioners to whose charge thehealth of Bampton is consigned .

1 7 . THE GHO ST or COW-LEAS CORNER .

Many years ago there was a custom,that those who had

committed suicide should be buried in a place where four

roads meet, with a stake driventhrough the body. There isno

doubt that the effect of this law woulhbe to create horror inignorant m inds, and so to deter them from the crime of self

mnrder by the ignominious ceremonial which awaited them and

the mutilation of their body after death . The origin of this

custom is lost inobscurity : it is impossible to say whether the

practice arose from the pious wish to place the remains of the

deceased under the keeping of the HOLY cnoss, of which the

cross -roads formed a kind of rude imitation, or whether, onthe

other hand,it was done inabominationof the form of the cross .

Both these feelings have prevailed at different peri ods of Eu

glish history. I shall make no apology for quoting the follow

ing passages insupport of both these views .

Richard Flecknoe, inhis “E nigmatical Characters, 8vc,

Lond . 1 665,p . 83

,speaking of your

“ fanatical reformers, says,

had they their will, a bird would not fly inthe air, with its

wings across,a ship with its cross-ya rd sail upon the sea

,nor

profane tailor sit cross-legged onhis shop -board, or hat e cross

bottom s to winde his thread upon. This whi m sm al detestation

of the cross-form,says the author of the Popular Antiquities,

HISTO RY O F BAMPTON .

no doubt,took its use from the odium at that time against

every thing derived from Popery.

The opposite view of the questionm ay be illustrated byDalrym ple, who, inhis Travels inSpain, says, that there not

a womangets into a coach to go a hundred yards, nor a postil

liononhis horse without crossing themselves . Eventhe tops

of tavern-bills and the directions of letters are marked with

Crosses .

But it is unnecessary to multiply instances : for inevery coun

try of Europe for the space of fifteenhundred years the greatest

respect was paid to every thing which was cross- like inits form,

and this feeling became at length alm ost as gross and contemp

tible as were the endeavours of the Puritans in after-ages to

divest themselves of this superstition.

At the dis tance of about half a mile from the westernextro

m itybf the townof Bampton, the road which leads to Clanfield

and Farringdonis crossed by another, which, coming up from

the ham let of Weald,continues itscourse towards thenorth-west

to A lvescott,Kencot

,Bradwell

,and other villages . A t this

point,which is sufficiently exposed to the winds andweather to

enhance, if it were necessary, the horrors of the ceremony, it

was customary formerly to bury, inthe dead of night and bytorch-light, the bodies of those unhappy beings, who had relieved

themselves of the evils,“ which they knew of, inthis world byflying to others which they knew not of. The spot is

,how

ever, known'

not by any appellationderived from the burial

of the suicide, but by the homely and pastoral designationof

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Cow-leas Corner and all memory of the unhallowed corpses

which have there mouldered, would long sm ce have perished, if

it were not for the troubled spirits, which once occupied thosesinful tabernacles of flesh

,but now

,ejected from their decayed

habitations, andno longer liable to be consigned to the Red Sea

and other lock-up-places by the Exorcists, which the Church

once provided, they wander forth occasionally upon the world,and

,never departing far from their place of burial, alarm the

farmers and peasants, who pass late at nightnear the fearful spot .

There are persons still living,who assert that they have seen

supernatur al appearances intheneighbourhood of Cow-leas Cor

ner neither canit be‘ said that such persons have beenunder

the influence of liquor : for a state of inebriety has the effect of

multiplying— or at least of doubling— the object which presents

itself to the eye ; and it i s certain that all those who have ex

perienced such visitations have never seenmore thanone ghost

at a time : besides whi ch their veracity has never been questi

oned and they have'

all returned inanalarmed state of mind,

and oftenwith the loss of a hat, shoe, or some other article of

dress,intokenof the terror occas ioned to them by the super

natural visitor.

About two years ago there lived inBam ptonanold m an, since

deceased,who formerly travelled as a higler betweenBampton

and som e of theneighbouring villages . Infollowing the duties

of his vocationhe passed at all hours of the night by Cow-leas

corner,andused to declare, to his dying day, that he had often

seen' the ghost which haunted that place . Onordinary occa

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s ions the apparitionkept at a respectful distance from him,and

having merely shownhimself to the higler, vanished inthe shape

of a calf,sheep, or s ome other rustic animal ; but onone occa

sionhis proceedings were of a more serious nature and assumed

rather a diabolic al character . The benighted traveller had stop

ped so late at the fair some miles from home that he did not

reach the place till the clock was on the point of striking-

the

hour of midnight . Onreaching Cow-les s Corner he attempted

to urge his horse to greater speed,whensomething passed like

a flash of lightning rapidly before his eyes . He hadno time to

observe its form,in consequence of the rapidity of its motion.

A loud noise followed, and the ghost, (for such no doub t it was, )glided backwards and forwards with the speed of light and the

intangibility of a vapour, through the cart of the astonished big

ler,as if he would cut it inpieces . It is not surpri sing that

the horse,frightened at these doings, took to his heels, and soon

extricated his master from this fearful collisionwith the beings

of another world . The next morning the higler remembered

that he had beenout ina thunder-storm ,but he would never

allow that he had not beenalso attacked by the ghost in the

formidable manner before described .

But there are persons still alive, who testify that they have

seenthis same apparition. One of these, a respectable trades

m anof the town, about 35 years ago, whenhe was 1 5 years old,

was returning home between the hours of tenand elevenat

night, and had proceeded some distance beyond the usual loca

litv of the ghost, whenhe suddenly saw before him anold m an,

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as it appeared, dressed ina low crowned hat and a light-coloured

foul -weather great-coat, such as the shepherds of this neighbour

hood are knownto wear whilst attending ontheir flocks inwin

ter or at night . Our traveller,taking it for Joseph Hitchcock

,

a shepherd who was knownto wear such a costum e,called out

and advanced towards him : but as the one advanced,the other

receded,so as to keep always the sam e distance between them .

This line of conduct denoted something more thana visitor of

pastoral habits,and caused no little fear inthe mind of the young

m an. But,like Hamlet

,he determined to follow and see the

las t of the adventure : so he continued to dodge his compani on

until they arrived near ly to the grounds belonging to Bampton

Manor-house . Here the old gentlemanturned through a gate

way into a field onthe left hand side of the road, and the young

m anlooking into the field after him,was astonished to see no

thing init but a calf the ghost had entirely vanished The

cata strophe had such aneffect onhim,that he made the best

of his way home, and for a week or more could hardly recover

from the shock which he had received .

1 8 . O r TH E TRADE AND occurar i oN onTHE INHAB I

TANTS .

Tradition— and probably the memory of som e of our oldest

inhabitants— tellsus that Bamptonwas once as famous asWood

stock, for the manufacture of leathern gloves, gaiters,

and other articles fabricated of the same m aterial ; but Time,

which has beenfavourable to the staple m anufactures of other

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whatever. One corner of the north transept is boarded

off to form a small vestry-room . Onthe front of the partition

is the following inscription

This chapel was erected inthe year 1 839 : it contains 50 0sittings, and, inconsequence of a grant from the incorporatedsociety for promoting the enlargement

,building and repairing

of churches and chapels, 3 50 of that number are hereby declared to be free and unappropriated for ever.

Rev. Cranley Lancelot KerbyRev.Dacres A dam s Ministers .Rev. JohnRobinsonWinstanley

W. Sparrowhawk,chapel-warden.

Another inscriptioninforms us that “ the font was presented

hyi

the Rev. JohnNelson,Sept. 2

,1 839 . and that “The

chapel was consecrated A . D . 1 840 .

An elderly inhabitant of the place, Mr. Fox, who latelydied at the advanced age of 77, gave a donation of £ 4 per

annum out of hi s hard-earned savings, to aid inthe maintainance

of thi s fabric for ever .

Next to the church inimportance is the ' School-house,

erected by the British and Foreign School Society . This

is a large and commodi ous room,and is partlyused as a place

of worship by those inhabitants . who are'

of the Baptist

p ersuasion.

Adjoining to the school is the house of the Baptistm inister

the present incumbent is the Rev. B .Wheeler, who is muchrespected by all his neighbours for the amiable and peaceful

tenor of his life. A ston occurs in Leofric’ s charter, where

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it is called Est-tune, or East-town, but this is all we know

about its fprm er hi story.

20 . COTE.

At the di stance of about half a mile eastward from A stonis

the little hamlet of Cote, cons isting of about 30 houses . It is

ingeneral still more humble andunpretending inits character

thanA ston; but it contains two objects of interest which merit

the attention of the reader . These are COTE CHAPEL and

COTE HOUSE .

21 . COTE CHAPEL .

This chapel is one of the most respectable establi shments,

founded for the use of Dissenting Communities, inthe whole

kingdom .

It was built for the“ denominationof dissenters called Bap

tists , and is endowed with a hous e for the minister,— a respec

table building situated, as was before observed, at A ston

and anannual stipend .

The meeting-house was first registered, as the law required,

in the month of September, 1 703, the ground having been

givenby Mr . JohnWilliams of As ton.

The ministers of this chapel since its founda tion have been

the following

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1 . Rev. Joseph Collett,* from July, 1 703 to 1 741 .

2 . Rev. Joseph Stennett, Brother of the Rev. Joseph Stennett

,D . D . from March 1 7, 1 742 to 1 7 72 .

3 . Rev. Thomas Cnnscom be,M . A .

,from June

,1 7 72 T to

1 798 .

4 . Rev. Joseph Stennett,M . A . (sonof Dr. Stennett .)

5 . Rev. James Bicheno, I M . A .

6 . Rev. Richard Pryce .

7 . Rev. BenjaminWheeler,the present

'

m inister,appointed

in 1 840 .

The incumbent of this chapel serves also at a small meeting

house inBampton,inA stonSchool -room and elsewhere.

§ 22 . COTE HOUSE .

This interesting mansionwas probably built in the reignof

Elizabeth or James I . It has two projecting wings with gabled

roofs, like nearly all the houses erected at the same period,

but the wings are of unequal height,which somewhat detracts

from the grandeur of its appearance. The centre of the buil

ding forms a long hall,into which the door

,which is in the

m iddle of the principal front, opens without screen or vesti

bule. At the upper end of the hall i s the dr awing room,a

wains cotted apartment, beyond which is anancient staircase of

heavy oak leading to the state bed- room, which was once orna

m entedwith abundance of oak carving, but this has withina few

years beenremoved by the present owner, H . Hippisley, esq. to

Author of a treat ise onDivine Providence, and son of Joseph Collett , gentlem an,

of Cote , who lived in a house on the site of the present Pond-H ouse,”which descended to Mr. JohnWilliam s , late of Shifford , who m arried his grand—daughter .

1 A t this tim e the num ber of m em bers who received the Com m union in thischapel is registered 1 02 .

I Author of som e works onProphecy.

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embellish his modernmansionat Lam bournPlace,near Wan

tage. WhenMr . Skeltonwrote his work onthe Antiquities of

Oxfordshire, there were some interesting shields of arms on

painted glass inone of the principal apartments . Amongst

these,says Mr . Skelton, “ I noticed the arms of Blount, with

others of families of consequence, who had probably resided or

beenentertained here, informer times .

23 . SH IFFORD .

Two miles from A ston and one mile from Cote House is

Shifford, formerly, as it is said, a place of much consequence ;

but we find no confirmation of this inancient records . The

account which will further onbe laid before the reader of its

having been the place where Alfred once held a parliament,

furnishes no ground for supposing that it was more than

a village or small town; for inthose turbulent times, a parlia

ment was as rude a body of m enas canwell be conceived,

and their parliament-house was more likely to be a wild heath

thana Wes tm ins ter Hall . Still there is no doubt that Shif

ford was once a more important place than it i s now,

and

perhaps contained several houses and streets . A t present

there is nothing but its solitary little church,* 4 or 5 cottages,

and Shifford farm-house, the property of the Harcourt fam ily,

The old church of Shi fford which was very ancient , fell down in the year 1 7 72

that , wh ich now occupies its p lace , is a sm all build ing of the m ost plain, unadorned charac ter. It was not com pleted t ill som e years after , whenthe Rev. Sam uel Johnson, one

of the vicars of B am pton, officiated ini t .

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and the residence of their tenant,Mr . Peter Williams

,a gen

tlem anknownfar andnear for his hospitality and honest inde

pendence of character, to which the writer of these pages is

happy to be able to pay thi s humble tribute .

Nearly the whole of Shifford district— or parish,as it is

often improperly called— consists of common fields, almost

wholly dest itute of timber, and lying close uponthe river which

for many weeks inevery year overflows its banks and deluges a

large quantity of land . Further informationconcerning Shif

ford, its ancient his tory, its manor and other particulars,

will be givenhereafter in the Chronological arrangement of

past events which have happened inthis parish .

24. CH IMNEY .

Chimney consists of two farms only, the property of E . M .

Atkins esq.,of Kingston-Lyle in the county of Berks . It was

once the seat of theVeseys, one of whom founded the grammar

school . There were formerly a fine manor-house and chapel at

Chimney, but it is now some years since they have beenpulled

downand the material s rem oved . There isnothing remaining,

of interest, in the place ; which, indeed, inthe winter-season

can only be approached, owing to the inundation from the

river,by means of a large farm-horse

,kept by Mr. Pinnock,

the occupier of one of the farm s, for the accommodationof his

friends and visitors .

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poses, for which they were intended . But inthe present age

a better spirit is afloat, and it is hoped that all the testamentarybequests of pious and charitable individuals

,long sm ce decea

sed, m ay speedily be placed onsuch a footing as to be produc

tive of the most good to the parish for whose use they were

intended .

A large number of deeds concerning these charities are pre

served inthe great iron-chest which is kept inthe vestry under

four looks,but

,without o ther means of information

,these

papers are too imperfect to explain satisfactorily the subjects

to which they refer.

It‘

appear'

s that there was formerly a large board suspended

inthe churCli ‘

onwhich all or most of the Bampton charities

were inscribed .

This board has long since disappeared ; but fortunately a

copy of it is found inthe Rawlinsonmanuscript, alr eady so

often quoted . The account of it given inthat book is as

follows .

Onthe north wall of the Church is a large wooden tablet,and 0 11 it are these following benefactors mentioned .

George Tompson, gent . gave six pounds a year for ever .

Leonard Willm ot, of Clanfield, gen.,deceased

,gave to the

poor of Bamptonforty shillings a year for ever .

Doctor William Osborn gave one hundred pounds for theuse of the poor .

Mr. Robert Vaisey gave two hundred to the use of theSchool .

Mr . JohnPalmer gave two hundred pounds, one hundred tothe use of the School, the other to the poor.Mr. Henry Coxeter gave ten pounds to the use of theSchool .

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Mr . Bartholomew Coxeter gave thirty pounds to the use ofthe poor .

Mr . Robert Vaisey gave thirty pounds to the use of thecore.

JOlinTul l,baker

,gave tenpounds to the use of the poor .

Thomas Williar, draper, gave tenpounds to the use of thecor .

JofinButt gave tenpounds to the use of the poor .Doctor Edward Cotten gave the use of fifty pounds tothe use of the parish of Bampton, to be disposed of tothose that frequent the Chur ch and receive the Sa cram ent .

Mr. Richard Coxeter gave the us e of tenpounds towards thelacin out of poor childrenof Bam ptonandWeald .

Toby Sadler, draper, gave fifty ounds to be given inbreadto the poor of BamptonandYVeald.

Richard B lagrove gave the use of ten ounds to be givenInbread to the poor of Bamptonand eald.

Henry Clanfield gave the use of tenpounds to the poor ofBamptonandWeald .

Mr . Richard Dew gave to the use of the School fiftypounds .

Mr. JohnPa lmer gave the use of fifty pounds to the poor ofA stonand Coat .

Mr. Robert Dale gave the use of five pounds to the poor ofA stonand Coat .

Mr . JohnMouldenof Coat gave the use of five pounds tothe poor of A stonand Coat .

Mr . Thomas Cox of Stanford gave the use of five nobles tothe poor of Coate .

Madam Dorothy Loder, formerly wife of Mr . JohnH aucksof this arish, gave 3 0 0 to the use of the poor of B am ptonan Weald .

JulianWalter, of Appleton in the county of Berks, gave1 8 per annum to be di sposed of in bread to the poorof Bampton.

Thomas Hall ‘und Anne hi s wife,gave the sum of £ 5

each to be disposed of inbread to widowers and widowsof BamptonandWea ld .

All good benefactors .

It appears, from the same Rawlinson MS .,that there

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was a similar tablet in Shifford Church : the extract is as

follows

Ona velom ina frame fixed to the north of the church .

Mr. William Farr gave to the poore of Shifford five poundsand the use of it to be paid them every year uponSt . Thomas

’ sday for ever. He departed this life the 30th of November 1 691 . His text was inRevelations the 14th and the 1 3thverse “ And I heard a voice from Heaven, saying unto m e

Write,Blessed are the dead which die inthe Lord from hence

forth, yea, saith the Spirit, that they m ay rest from their la

bours and their works do follow them .

”These lists are, however, of little other use in the present

day, thanas a record of the pious benefactors to whom the pa

rish is indebted for the above named sums . A great part of

the m oney has beeninvested ih'

land and other securities,so

that the charities of Bam pton,as they are at present, would be

almost unintelligible evento the donors themselves .

The list of Bampton charities in their present state, is

as follows

1 . The free grammar-school, founded by R. Veysey.

2 . Thom pson’ s gift.

3 . Wilmot’ s gift .

4 . Appletonestate, givenby JulianWalter .

5 . Shiltonestate .

6 . Hoard’ s gift .

7 . The Church- lands .

8 . Money lent to the Stokencburch turnpike-trust .

9 . Legacies bequeathed byMrs . Sus anna Frederick, Mrs .

zabeth Snell,Mrs .Mary Frederick, andMrs . Mary Crofts .

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1 0 . Carter’ s legacy.

1 1 . Upper Moor close and B rookfast Furlong close.

1 2 . Lower Moor close and Lake-Re ddy close.

1 3 . National School .

1 4 . Mrs. Carr's bequest .

1 5 . Miscellaneous lost legacies, &c .

1 . Tfiefree Gram m a r-School. The Free Grammar-School

was founded, in the year 1 6 70, by Robert Vaisey, or Vesey,esq. of Chimney, who left 400 for the instructionof all boys

living inthe parish and dependencies of Bampton,and in the

small adjoining parish of Yelford . The inquisitions a nd other

papers printed inthe Appendix to this volume will inform the

reader of many particulars concerning this foundation, which it

i s here unnecessa ry to repeat .

The Trustees, sti ll alive, according to the last feoffment,dated June 2 1 , 1 83 1 , are F . Whitaker esq.

,Rev. C . L . Kerby,

vicar of Bamp ton, Rev. W . J . Walker of Southrop,Mr. Tho .

Green,Mr . James Ward, Mr. W. Andrews

,Mr.William Pryor

of A ston, Mr . Richard Townsend of Coate,and Mr. J . Bate

m an. Their duty is to take charge of and maintain the free

hold property which belongs to the foundation, consisting of

the School-house, a picturesque building situated near the

church, a small cottage adjoining and three fields situated nearFisher ’ s bridge .

The income derived from the rents, amounts to about 28

per annum, not including the School-house . Other monies

will probably be attached to the School, whencertainarrangeM

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ments inthe court of Chancery shall be brough t to completion.

The master is appointed by the three vicars of Bampton, and

the heir of the founder,and incase of anequality of votes be

tweenthe four, thenthe decisionshall remainon that side to

which the heir of the founder shall have givenhis vote.

The present m aster is the Rev. R . G . H . Orchard,but there

areno pupils, and it is a subject of regret to the inhabitants that

this foundationis without any benefit whatever to the town.

It appears, however, that this evil is not so irremediable as in

the case of many other grammar - Schools,for the foundationis

unfettered by any conditions which might perpetuate a course

of study not adapted to the wants of the people. The original

statutes seem now to be lost, but they were apparently extant

at the time whenthe RawlinsonMS . was written for I find

thereinthe following extract

School-master Leonard Fell,a poor child, of Q ueen

’ s College inOxford

,who according to the statutes ought not to be

a beneficed person.

”2 . T/wm son

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sgfi Mr . GeorgeThomp son,whose tomb is still

seenonthe east side of the South transept— a recum bent figure

under a pediment suppor ted by two fluted columns . — by his

last will,dated June 6

,l st James 1, A . D . 1 603 left a

rent -charge of 6 a year issuing out of certain lands situated

inthe parish of B rizenor ton, (now given, inSixpences,) to the

poor of BamptonandWeald . The extract from his will, pre

served ih the great chest, is as follows

ITEM 1 will and bequeath to the poor people of Bampton,

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keeping up a stock of blankets,which are lent to the poor du

ring the winte r.

4 . Appletonesta te, givenby JulianWa lter . The Appleton

estate consists of a house, called the Thames -House, and certainlands in the parish of Appleton, containining about 3 0 acres,more or less, bequeathed originally by JulianWalter, who, ha

ving no children, executed his will onMay 1 , 1 656, by which

he gave the aforesaid estate to Trustees for

the good and benefit of the poor of the townof Bamptonlnthecc . ofOxon and to the impotent people of the parish of Bam p.

aforesa id,equally to be divided betweenthem,

which prem ises so devised for and to the use of the poor of the said parish shall every Sunday 1nthe year for ever after the Sermons beended 1nthe said parish church

,inthe forenoon

,be distributed

inwheatenbread by the churchwardens or overseers of the poorof the parish aforesaid to the poor and impotent people inhabiting 1nthe said parish, insuch sort and manner as the breadis givenat Appleton Provided nevertheless that, if the saidseveral churchwardens for the time being of the said parish, orany of them shall fail at any time hereafter inthe due executionof this m y will, according to the true intent andmeaning hereof,that thenthe use of the poor of the parish to cease, but itshall or m ay be lawful for the Justices of Peace of the Sessionsto be holdenfor the county of 0 110 11 andBerks, to take the profits

,to them so devised for the use of the said poor, and employ

the sam e to the enlargement of the causeway at New-Bridge inlength, and for the maintainance of it for ever, &c .

Withina recent period this property has beenvested intrus

tees by a decree of the commissioners of the Public Charities .

The last enfeoffment, dated Sep. 25, 1 826, vested the trusteeship

inthe hands ofJane t/tanArna tt,William Joseph Walker, Fred

erick Whitaker, Robert Bullen, George B ryanS/lingleton, B er

na rd Green, William Roberts and John Bateman, with the

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proviso that whenfour trustees should be dead a fresh feoffment

should be executed . Three of them are already deceased .

The rents amount to £3 6 a year, received by the churchwar

dens,who retain8 3 . for a dinner

,onHoly Thursday, 8s . bread

money (as it is termed) for the parishes of Ensham,Witney and

Standlake, and£2 . 88 . land-tax the rest is giveninbread to the

poor . After Michaelmas, 1 848, the rent will be £42 .

5 . St iltonesta te. [For anaccount of this charity see Mr .

Hudson’ s pamphlet, in the appendix ] The last feoffment is

dated June 1 3 , 1 83 1 , and conveys the trust to the Rev. J . R .

Winstanley , D . D .,Rev. C . L . Kerby , James Ward

,Frederick

Whitaker,Rev. W . J . Walker, of Southrop inthe cc . of Glou

cester, Jane t/ionA rna t, Tho . Green, Wm . Andrews,Wm . Pryor,

Win. Sp a rrow/total , and Richard Townsend, ontrust to let thelands at the best annual rent

,the rent thereof to

be forthwith disposed of and applied to and for the placing outand binding of such and so many poor childrenyearly to somegood trades inLondonor the suburbs thereof and not elsewhere

,

as the said Tho . Burrow, J . R . Winstanley, and C . L . Kerby, andtheir successors, vicars of Barn. aforesd. for the time being

,or the

maj or part of them shall from time to time think fit and appoint .”The rents 110W produce £ 3 0 per annum ,

and help to paythe salaries of the master and mistress of the National School .

A fter the present lease is expired, they will be raised to £40 .

The Report of the Charity-commissioners states that this land

was purchased with the bequests of Dorothy Loder, Dr . Cotten,

and Richard Coxeter . [See A ppendix, No . XIX ]

6 . Hocm l’

s gift . This charity will be best understood by the

perusal of the following printed paper, formerly incirculation.

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HISTO RY O F BAMPTON .

AN ABSTRACT onTHE GI FTS or THOMAS HonnnES Q . forthe benefit of his N eighbours inAstonand Coate, in the County of Oxford .

N . B . The Trustees are to deduct all their charges out ofthe rents of the Lands charged .

Mr . Horde, by deed dated the sixth day of August in theyear 1 709, did give certainLands lnA stonand Coate to Trustees, intrust to ral se the yearly sum of Forty Pounds for ever,free from taxes

,whereof the yearly sum of Twenty-four pounds

is to be disposed for the benefit of the poor Prisoners in theCastle inOxford

,insuch manner as in the same deed is ex

pressed, and the remaining SixteenPounds per annum is to bebestowed inthe. manner following , Viz The Churchwardensand Overseers of the Poor of A ston and Coate are

,with Ten

Pounds thereof, to provide yearly tenwoollencoats, and tenpairof stockings for Men

,and ten coarse woollenwaistcoats

, andtencanvas

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shifts and tenp air of stockings for Women,arid to

deliver them to the MenandWom enuponthe feast of SaintMi chael the A rch-angel inevery year . The MenandWomenare to inhabit withinthe Villages of A stonand Coate

,and are

to be elected by the Lord of the manor of A ston, and the six

teen persons commonly called the sixteens or the major partof them .

The Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor,upon the

feast of St. Michael inevery

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year, are to give anaccount to theLord of the manor

,how they have disposed of the TenPounds

that year, and what remains of it is to be distributed, by thesame Churchwardens andOverseers, amongst the poor m enand

wom enwho shall receive the clothes that year .The remaining Six Pounds per annum is to be paid yearly,

by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, to some m an

or woman, inhabiting inA ston, being of a sober life,to be

named by the Lord of the manor and the sixteens, or the majorpart of them

,who

,for that money is to teach twenty such poor

children,inhabiting lnA ston and Coate to be elected by the

Lord of the manor and the Sixteens or the major part of them,

to read English until they canperfectly read the Bible ,Bu

if the Master or Mistress shall teach but fifteensuch children,thenhe or she shall 1 eceive but Five Pounds per annum ; and

if but tensuch children, thenbut Four Pounds per annum,and

if but five such children, thenbut Three Pounds per annum .

And the residue of the said yearly sum,in every such year, is

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r eceived by the church -wardens and help to pay the expenses

of the church, thereby rendering the church-rates so much

lighter uponthe inhabitants . These fields are four innumber :

One at Lew containing about 3 acres,at present let to Mr .

Jeeves, One in Clanfield lane,containing 4a . l r . 3 7p. let

toMr. Perkins Another inClanfield lane,containing 3r . 7p.

let to Mrs . Clare of Clanfield One near the road t o Tadpole,containing l a . 2r . 3 6p. and let to Mr . Fisher.

The rents of these fields at present amount to 24 . 1 5s . 0d.

There is no trust for three of them ; but for the first the last

feoffment was made by Mr . J . Banting,the only surviving

trustee, June 2 1 , 1 83 1 , to eight of the inhabitants, on condi

tions similar to those before mentioned .

A paper containing an account of the Bampton charities,

and printed by Bailey, 1 1 6 Chancery Lane, some years ago,says that the house stdnding in the midst of the Lew close

,

some land inthe Common-field andfive cow-commons besides

four houses, andanacre of land inWeald, also form edpart of the

church -lands . 1 have heard it hinted that certainacres of land

awarded inlieuof the cow-commons and land in the common,

might still be recovered for the use of the parish .

8 . Money lent to tire Stokene/lni‘

c/l turnp ike-trust About

thir ty years ago, large subscriptions were collected by the Rev.

Dr . Richards, one of the vicars of Bampton, amounting finally,with other contributions, to £1 3 00 . This sum has been since

lent to the trustees of the Stokenchurch turnpike-road : the

vicars conjointly with the two churchwardens are trustees for the

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money. The interest of £600 at 4 per cent, viz. £24 a year,

is paid to the organist £20 is devoted to the use of the National

School of Bampton, and £8 is givento the poor inbed-linen.

9 . Lega cies oegztea tfiecl by Mrs . Susanna F redei i ok, (Sec:

- Mrs . Susanna Frederick, by her last will, dated April 29,1 7 89, bequeathed the interest of £3 00 stock inthe South-sea

annui ties for the use of the Sunday-schools . Her executor was

the late Edward IVhitaker esquire.

Mrs . Elizabeth Snell, by her last will, dated June 29, 1 78 7 ,

left the sum of £200 inthe hands of Edward Whitaker, Wm

Roberts, and the Rev. Fras . Smith as trustees . This money was

afte rwards placed out inpur chas ing £268, 3 per cent consols .

Al so the same Mrs . Elizabeth Snell, andMrs . Susanna Frede

rick,in conjunctionwith Mrs . Mary Frederick, in the year

1 7 84, purchased £400 Stock inthe 4 per cent Bank Annui

ties, and vested it in the names of William Hawkins, John

Mander,lVilliam Roberts and Edward Whitaker, for the use

of the Master of the Grammar-School, on condition that he

should teach Reading,Writing, English and A rithmetic to all

such boys, not exceeding the number of 1 0, as should for that

purpose be nominated and appointed, after the decease of the

said donors,by the said Trustees and their successors &c . In

1 829 the amount of Stock was £41 8 . 1 73 . 6d.

Mrs . Mary Crofts, by will dated onor about March 4, 1 7 1 7,

left £1 00 to be laid out inland, and the interest to be applied to

the use of theMaster of the Free School, for instructing 1 2 poor

boys and gir ls of the townof Bamptoninthe English tongue,

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until they shall be able to read well in the Bible ; but, if the

School-master refuses or neglects to do so,then the profits

shall be applied to the use of such Schoolmaster or

Schoolmistress as by the appointm ent of her executor John

Frederick, and his heirs, should yearly teach the said childreninthe manner aforesaid . The value of this Stock

,in 1 829,

was £1 3 5 . 7s . 3d.

Concerning all these gifts there is a deed of declaration, dated

Dec . 1 792 setting forth the objects as aforesaid . The

whole of this money, amounting to several hundred pounds, is

still lying inthat secure treasure-house, the Court of Chancery1 0 . Ga rter’ s Legacy . Joseph Ca rter, mariner, of Bristol,

by his last will, dated Aug. 6,1 768, and proved inLondon,

July 8, 1 769, bequeathed, amongst other legacies, £50

to theMinister andChurchwardens for the time being of thesaid parish of Bamptoninthe county of Oxford, to be by themplaced out at interest

,and the interest thereof annually divided

amongst the poor of the parish of Bamptonaforesaid,not receiving parish-pay.

”Thi s legacy of £50 has, of late years, beenreduced to less than

half of its original amount ; for, having beendeposited in the

care of the late Mr . Bur row,one of the vicars of Bampton, it

remained inhis hands until his death, when it appeared that

the affairs of the deceased were ina state of insolvency, and onlyabout £20 were recovered for the parish, amounting in1 844,

with interest, to £30 . 3 s . 6d.

, and lying inthe charge of the Rev.

D . Adams,one of the present vicars of Bampton.

1 1 . Upper Moor close andB row/fa st Furlong close. See Mr.

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pike trust, and 1 . 1 0s . paid by Mr . Waite of A ston,the rent

of a sm sll piece of land inShiltonmeadow,appurtenant to the

Shiltonestate, but let to him separately .

1 4 . M iss Ca rr’

s bequest. Miss Carr, organist of Bampton

church,by her will, dated Aug. 1 6, 1 841 , bequeathed £ 100

to her successor . A s the Words of the will were not thought

sufficiently explicit, Miss AnnWhitaker, who succeeded Miss

Carr inthe office of organist,by a deed of declaration, dated

A pril 3 0, 1 845 , vested the trusteeship of the £1 00, m inus £ 1 0

legacy-duty, inFred . Whitaker esq., Rev. D . Adams,Rev. R .

Barnes, and A . Close esq.

,the interest to be paid to the organist

of Bamptonchurch for ever.

1 5 . Miscellaneous,los t lega cies, (s

e

c. Such are the folllowingTbc Wort /louse, and the land onwhich it stood, form erly

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the

property of the parish, were sold in1 840, and the proceeds paid

over towards the expense of building the Witney Union.

Mr .E. Cburcb’s legacy, called theWidows

’estate byMr . Hud

on, seems never to have become the property of the parish .

Mrs . Leverett’s,and Mrs . Susanna F rederic

’

s second legacy of

of money lent toMr s . Leybourne, and the latter lady’s bequest of

one guinea for a sermon. I have not beenable to procure any

informationconcerning these bequests b eyond that which is to

be found inMr . Hudson’ s pamphlet.

Mrs; Dewe’s lega cg. This money, having beenfor some years

employed, according to the will of the donor, was eventually lent

with the other monies, altogether £1 3 00, to the Stokenchur ch

turnpike trust .

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28 . MANORS o r BAMPTON, BAMrTos EANERv, A STON,

AND sn1 r ronn.

*

It would be beyond the scepe of m y design, and at the samet ime uninteresting to the genera l reader, and to those who fromlocal circum s tances feel interes t inthe perusa l of these pages,were I to enlarge upon the originand nature of what is calleda Hundre d or a Manor ; but a s the townof Bam ptonis the Hundred-Town, and there will be found inthe appendix some transcripts from records relating to the Hundred andManor ofRampton, it m ay, for the better understanding them,

be useful to furnish the reade r with a few general observations onthe subject .The divisionof the kingdom int o counties, hundreds, and ti

things,is said -to have beenthe work of King A lfred, and his

object the preventionof rapine and disorder, which prevailed inhis realm . But. neither the mere separationof a givenportionof the kingdom and ca lling it a county,nor a portionof a county and calling it a hundred, nor of a hundred and calling it atithing, would initself at all advance this object. It was byinstituting certa incourts or tribunals wi thinthese particular lim its

,that he hoped to accomplish his obj ect , and, as has been

sa id of him,to bring Justice home to every m an

’

s door ; henceinglancing at the courts which from these views of the kingSprung up, we shall have to no tice the very courts, which untilla tely Were held withinthe hundred and manor of Bam ptorInancient times it was the duty of the Sheriff of a county

to m ake his circuit through every hundred of his county twiceinthe year, and to hold a court for the reform ationof commongrievances, and for the preservationof the peace and good governm ent of the kingdom ; at which court all the inhabitantsabove twelve years old (with some exceptions) were bound toattend, to make inquiries of all offences, and also to give security to the public for their owngood behaviour, by taking anoath to be faithful to the king and to observe his laws . Andthey were to incorporate them selves into some free-pledge or

tithing, which formerly comprised a certainnumber of familiesliving together inthe same precinct, the m embers whereof wereevery one of them mutually bound for each other, and punish

I am indebted for the contribut ionof th is sect ionto the k indne ss o f Fred . Wh itaker,e sq . , J . P . , lord of the m anor of Bam ptondeanery, andwell acqua inted w ith the whole subjut of m anors , the ir na ture and jur isdict ion.

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able.

for the default of any member of a family innot appearingto answer for himself onany accusationmade against him .

The jurisdictionof the Sheriff extended to every hundred inthe county,unless, by prescriptionor by virtue of som e grant orcharter, it had come into the hands of some private Lord of theLeet, as the Hundred and Manor of Bamptonhad by the grantof King Henry the 3 rd [Nd IV in the appendix] come into thehands of William de Valence. These grants or charters usually.specified the powers with which the Lord of the Leet and theManor was to be invested

, and the instruments of punishmentwhich he was to keep . Amongst the latter

,which he would

have by law without enumeration, as incident to the situationofLord of the Leet, was a p illory , and a turnbrell er m a ting

-stool

the form er is a well known instrument.of punishment ; the

latter,because not so well known, I shall describe out of Jacob’ s

Law Dictionary. Cuckingsteel is anengine invented for thepunishm ent of scolds and unquiet women

,by ducking them in,

the water, called inancient time a ‘Tum brell and sometimes aA nd it was inuse eveninthe time of our Sax

ons,by whom it was described to be Ca tbea

’ra ingunr ixosoernu

lieres sedentes aguis dem ergebantur .

”A chalr or steel inwhich

scolding, brawling womenbeing made to sit, were plunged overhead and ears inwater.Anindefinite num ber of hundreds made -up a county, but ten

tithings,hamlets

,or t ownships were said formerly to have made

up a Hundred, for every one of which tithingmenwere appointed at the court - leet of the Hundred ; but since an

,

A ct of Parliam ent passed on the 1 2th of August

,1 842

,the office of a

tithingmanis no longer inuse, and the appeintm ent‘

of constables was takenfrom the Lords of the

,Leet

,and is new m ade byi

Justices of the peace at a special Sessionse f the peace : inthe .

Hundred of Bamptonit is made at Burford for the western, and.

at Witney fer the easterndivisionof the Hundred .

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Inancient times there was a ceremony, performed at courtsleet, which consisted of what was called view of frank or-freepledge . Here the heads ef the different families of the differenttithings presented themselves to the Lord or Steward of the .

“

court,and a certainnumber of neighbour s - became bound, one

for another,to see each m anof their pledge or tithing forthco

ming at all tim es, or to answer for the transgressiondone by anyone who was gone away ; and when, _

any j oue ,offended, it was .

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of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded,and the

glory of Europe is extinguished for ever . Never, never more

shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex,that

proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordinationofthe heart, which kept alive eveninservitude itself the spirit ofanexalted freedom . The unbought grace of life

,the cheap de

fence ofnations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enter a

prise i s gone ! It is gene, that sensibility of principle, thatchasti ty of honour, which felt a stainlike a wound, which inspiredcourage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever ittouched, and under which Vice itself lost half its evil by losingall its gros sness .”This mixed system of opini onand sentiment

,he continues

,

had its o rigininthe ancient chivalry . And this ancient chival~ry was infull vogue and vigour a t the time of the grant of themanor of Bampton to William de Valence. U pon that grantbeing made, he became immediate tenant or tenant incapite toKing Henry the 3 rd, and held by Knight- service or as theFrench ca lled it Service de Chevalier .

It is universa lly admitted, I believe, by law-writers that a manor cOuld no t be created subs equently to the statute of Q uiaemptores terrarum in the 1 8 th year of the reignof King Edward the l s t, but before that statute it was competent to a tenantincapite or evena mesne lord to grant a portionof the landof a manor to another person

,and to make of this portiona

new manor to be held of himself. Whenthis was done such 3

lord was called a mesne- lord, who might hold m anor-courts inthat portionas his immediate lord had done before in

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the manor before suzh separation.

Of these manor-courts the court of the freeholder was calledthe Hallmo te or Court-baron that of the copyholders thehold or custom ary court of the manor . Inthe former thsuito rs were the judges : in the latter the lord or his steward .

The court~baronwas the court where justice and equity weredispensed among the freehold tenants of the manor by the tenants themselves assisted by the lord or his steward, and downto about AD . I 800

,it appears by the courtbooks, cognizance was

takenof causes underd O shillings at courts: held inBam pton.

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copyhcld or customary cour t was the court for the lord’ s

villains,who held at the will of the lord and were for a long

t im e his vassals,removable whenever he should manifest his

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will ; but. afterwards, whenthey had acquired a firmer and lessslavish possession, they held and now hold at the will of thelord nominally, but really according to the custom of the manorand this custom is the charter of their rights .

Inthe parish of Bam ptonthere are no less thanfour manors

or reputed manors : l . The Manor of BAMPTON . 2 . The

m anor of HAMPTO N DEANEB Y. 3 . The Manor of A STON . 4s.

The Manor of SHIFFO RD . The original records, from which

we obtainnearly all our informationon this subject,will be

found inthe Appendix : to which m ay be added incidental no

tices found in vari ous works, and some charters concerning,Shifford inDugdale

’

s MonasticonAnglicanum .

l . The Manor of BAMPTON appears to have been inthe

hands of the Conqueror at the time of the Domesday surveyit was afterwards granted to the Count of Boulogne, hut

i

again

becoming royal property, was granted by Henry III to VVill

iam dc Valence and descended to his sonAylmer de Va

lence, who dying without issue, it fell to his heir Elizabeth

daughter of JohnComyn of B adenhaugh. This lady m ar

ried Richard Talbot, who received from Edward III a grant

of free warren, dated Apri l 1 0, 1 341 . The family enjoyed

their estate and privilege of free-warren here, until the 9th

year of Henry V, when the property passed to the heroic

Sir John Talbot . From this time to the present it is m ybelief that the manor of Bam ptonhas never wholly been

out of the hands of the Shrewsbury fam ily, thoughMr . Skelton,

apparently foll owing the account given of it in the Beauties

HISTO RY or BAMPTON.

of England andWales, a work of little authority, tells us that

Onthe 8th July, 1 425, Sir William Molins died posses

ed of this manor with others inthe county. In 1 441,Robert

Hungerford, Esq . having married the daughter and sole heirof Sir . Wm . Molins, had possessionof the lands of her inheritance. King Edward the 4th subsequently seized upon themanor, in consequence of Robert lord Hungerford havingsided with the Lancastrians

,and disposed of it to John lord

Wenlock .

”But I suspect that the family of Molyns and Hungerford

held the manor of A ston and not of Bampton; for the pre‘sent lords of the manor of Bampton are Thomas Denton

,esq.

who holds two- thirds,and lord Shrewsbury, who still holds one

third of the manor of Bampton,as it would appear

,

‘

by descent

from his ancestor Richard lord Talbot, who first brought it into

the family. The two -thirds,which have beenalienated

, passed

by marriage from the Talbots to the Coventry family, from whom”they were purchased by the present possessor.

2 . The manor of BAMP'

rou DEANERY is of an earlier ori

gin than the larger manor withinwhich it lies ; having been

first g ranted by Leofric to theDeanand chapter of Exeter A . D .

1 044 . It has remained intheir hands until the present time,

except for a short periodwhenit was sold with other church

lands inthe time of the common-wealth . The present lord of

this ‘manor is E. Whitaker esq. holding by lease from the Church

ofExeter.

3 . The manor of A stonfir st appears as having“

beengranted

before the year 1 249, to Hubert Pogges, whence it is sometimes

called A ston-Pogges : and by the Inquisitionof 3 rd‘Edward

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4 . Concerning the manor of SH IFFORD, inearly times, there

is great obscurity : in a charter, by which Ethelm are or

Aylm er, earl ofCornwall, before the year 1 235, gave certainlands

to the abbey of Ensham ,which he had just founded, appears

the vill of Seipford, and a charter of confirmation

by Remigius, bishop of Lincoln, who died and was buried atEnsham,

m entions Scipfort amongst the possessions of

the abbey. [See Bishop Kennet, and Dugdale’s Monasticon,

III, pp . 1 5 . It is however probable that no m anorlal

rights were granted to the abbey, for we find that the m an

or of Shifford was in the hands of Edward Crouchback son

of Henry III, from whom iti

descended to Henry, earl of

Lancaster, then to his daughter Blanch, from her to John

of Grant, duke of Lancas ter, and to his sonHenry IV.

Part of the parish of Stanlake was included in the royal

property, of which Gaunt House, with its m eat, is still a

remnant . Whenthe abbeys were dissol ved by Henry VIII, the

m anor of Shifford was granted to Edward lordNorth its lands&c . were thenvalued at

i

£ 2 1 . 1 4s . 6d. less, outgoings paid to“

the receiver &c . £ 4 . 3 8 . 4d.

“and so rem am eth clear £1 7 .

1 0 8 . 2d. [Valor Eccles .n,208 . Dugdale III, pp.

The hamlet of Shifford, as royal

' i

prOpcrty, was exempt

from the following imposts telom'

o, passagie, sta llagio, tollagio,

ta lldgio, earring/

tie and term gw,throughout the whole kingdom .

Thesej

fir/ere different tolls and dut ies leived ‘

on'

the erection

of stalls, the sale, carriage, and passage of goods, but it is

difficult to ascertain their exact nature.

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29 . PA ST H ISTORY or BAMPTON CHRONOGICALLY AR

RANGED .

The most ancient monument of antiquity remaining inthe pa

rish of Bampton, is, no doubt, Lew barrow,a mound about 1 5

feet high and ofproportional dimensions, standing onthe highest

point of the Lew hills . The Barrow has been of late years

planted with trees , and surrounded by a hedge, so that it would

be difficult for a stranger to find it,and whenfound, the mass

of foliage, with which it is thickly covered, deprives it of that

strikingand im pressive character, which all such grand and

simple m onuments, in their original state, possess . It is also

for another reasonto be lamented that this solitary record of the

Ancient Britons, —for it is probably a chief of that nationwho

lies there entombed,— should be covered with a plantation.

The yearly dilapidations of the young trees will m ore and more

tend to deprive the mound of its original features, until theyhave arrived at maturity, whenthey will probably be felled and

their roots he grabbed up, a process, which in all probability,

will com pletgthe destructionof the mound, which marks theancient warrior’ 3 tomb .

Though there is no reasonfor disputing the tradi tionwhich

gives a sepulchral originto Lowbarrow, I have not beenable to

a scertainthat any Romanor British road passed through or

near the parish of Bampton, though some of our antiquaries

have endeavoured to prove that such was the case.

If these rem arks should m eet the - eye of the proprietor of f e'w Barrow , it m aysugges t for h is considera t ionthe propriety of rem oving the planta ti on, and of restor

ing‘

Lew Barrow, as near as m ay be , to its original s tate.

H ISTO RY O F BAMPTON . cxi

I t is well knownthat the Romans had hardly gained a foot

ing inthis island, before they beganto m ake m ilitary roads or

to re-m odel the existing roads of the Britons, so as to suit their

ownm ilitary purposes . These constructions were of two kinds

High-ways, vice m'

cz'

na lea, of which there were four, traversing

the kingdom from one extremity to the other, and bye-ways,

t ics m inaret ; which fo rmed the communication between small

towns and villa ges . The former were also denominated,Royal

roads; rey iae Praetorian, pm toria Consular,

cmwula res

Pr ivileged, privi legia tw ; &c . according to particular circum

stances connectedwith them : the latter we re als o denominated

Vicinal, vicina les because they led from one hamlet (views) to

another.

Inthe third volume of Grose’ s antiquities I find the follow

ing account of the two principal Rom an roads which pas sed

through Oxfordshire . To save the reader the trouble of refer

ring to that work,I extrac t the passage, though I suspect that

the AkemanStreet passed too far to the north to have touched

the parish of Bampton“The Romanroads inthis county are the Ikeneld Street

and AkemanStreet . The first enters Oxfordshire at Garingeford from Berkshire, and passes N orth-east,where it enters Buckingham shire . The AkemanStreet was a consular way, entersfromBuckinghamshire near Bicester, passes through WoodstockPark, and crossing the river Charwell, and Evanlode, entersGloucestershire, South West of Burford (it must therefore haverunby or through Bampton) . Another road is the remains ofa vicinal way, called Gryme

’s Dyke , which enters this county

from Berkshire,near Wallingford

,crosses the Thames

,and run

ning South-Eas t,and crossin Ikeneld Street, pas ses the

Thames a second time near Henfiy, and re-enters Berkshire.

cxii HISTO RY or BAMPTON .

It appears, then, that before the conquest of England by‘

the

Saxons, there are no not ices,inhistory, of Bampton,

.

andbut‘

one ancient monument which canbe said.

to'

belong t o the

preceding period . But soon after the country had submittedto the dominationof the Saxons, we find this townmentioned

as the scene of a bloody battle between the West-Saxons and

the neighbouring Britons from Wales . The earliest mention

of this occurrence is found inthe work, commonly called the

Anglo-SaxonChronicle .

The unlearned reader m ay require to be toldthat between

the years 5 00 and 800 of the Christian aera England was

divided into sevenpetty kingdoms . The county of Oxford la’

y

betweenthe kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex . This frontier

positionof Oxfordshi re occasioned it to be the scene of frequent

battles betweenthe Mercians andWest-Saxons, inwhich the

neighbouring Britons,from the westernparts of Gloucestershire

andWales,frequently took part, a ssisting sometimes one party,

sometimes the other,and not unfrequently fighting against

them both . Inthe year 6 1 1 Cynegils‘

becam e king ofWessex,

and inthe fourth year of his reignhe was summoned to repel

a large army ofWelchm enwho had invaded his dominions on

the northernfrontier. Inthis expeditionh e had the aid of

his brave,but ferocious and blood-thirsty son

,Cnichelrn, who

I

became king after him . The notice‘

of this exploit is given

with little regard to em bellishment inthe SaxonChronicle.

A . D . 6 14 . This, year Cynegils and Cuichelm fought a t

B eam dgne, and slew tivo thousand and sixty five Welshmen.

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as far '

as r ega rds the'

pla‘

ce'

where the facts are said to have hap~

pened . The author, describing thus

gen.

“

Plott says that withinhis ownmemory, the towns-peoplewere accustomed annually to m ake a dragon

,to which they

added a giant, and both were carried through the street, withmuch parade and jollity,

‘

onMidsummer Eve .

Inreply to this narrative we have the words of the Anglo

SaxonChronicle, which, under the date A . D . 752,gives the

follow mg account . This year Outbred, km g of the West

Saxons, inthe 1 2th year of his reign, fought at Burfordagainst .

Ethelbald, kingof the Mercians, and put him to flight . This

was no doubt the battle fought at the place called Battle Edge,and Burford,not Bam pton, the place referred to by the Author

After thi s time the name of Bamptonagainm erges into its

original obscurity until the reign of kingAlfredj anintervalof 350 years . This noble monarch, whom England will always

place at the head of its truly great m en, was bornat Wantage

inBerkshire, and passed great part of his life inthat part of the

kingdom . It i s necessary here to speak only of his connexion

with Bampton which derives its ‘ principal lustre from

the arts of peace and civilizationwhich it was his principal

object t o promote . We are not left to doubt that the river

whoSe navigable stream winds betweenBampton and the op

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posits county of Berks, has been often covered with the

slender ships and honoured by the presence of the patriot king.

But whenhis fleets and arms had saved England from subjee

tionto her cruel foes,her sovereignendeavoured, by promoting

learning and teaching his subjects the advantages of good

government, to elevate the country which he had saved to a

positionamong the civilized nations ofEurope . To effect this

object he not only patronized learning but became a learned

m anhimself. He wrote works, which are still inexistence,

occupying many volumes, and to him 1 8 due the institutionof

many of our most useful laws .

Sir Henry Spelm an, inhis life of this illus trious king, p . 1 27,

has given an extract from a MS . formerly in the Cottonian

library, containing diverse precepts and instructions of King

A lfred,tending to inform and ameliorate his rude subjects .

This MS probably perished inthe fire which consum ed manyvolumes of the Cottonianlibray. The reader will find in the

appendix to this volume all that rem ains of these sayings of

King A lfred inthe original Anglo-Saxontongue, and I here

subjoina literal translationinEnglish

At Shifford sa t thanes many,bishops, and many book-learned [m en] ,wise and knights awful.

There was earl Alfric, of the law so wise,And eke A lfred, England

’ s herd [,s-m an] , England’ s darling ;

InEngland he was king ; them he began[to] learn,So him they m ight hear, how they their life should lead .

Alfred, he was inEngland a king well so strong.

He was king and clerk : well he loved God’ s work .

He was wise inhis word, and wary inhis speech .

cxvi HISTOR Y O F BAMPTON .

He was the wisest m anthat was inEngland .

THUS quoth Alfred England’s darling :“Would ye now live and long after your Lordf l

'

And he. would you [make to] know wise things,Howyoumight world

’ s worship obtain:And eke your s ouls unite to Christ 1Wise. were the quotations that said the king A lfred .

Mildly I m ind”you, m y dear friend, poor

And easily loving, that ye all dread yourLord Christ

,love him and like

,for he is

Lord of life : he i s one God over all goodness .He 15 one bliss over all blessedness .He i s one m an, mild master : he one folk

’

S father [commonfather] ,

And darling : he is one right wise and rich king,

That him not shall be pane naught of his will“The Him here inworld worship and eth.

”THUS quoth A lfred

,England ’ s comfort .

He m ay no right king be under Christ’ s self,But [unless] he be book - learned

, and wise of law,And he his writs well know, and he canLetters locenhimself

,how he shall his land

Lawfully hold .

THUS quoth A lfred, England’ s comfort

The earl and the atheling too be under the king,The land to lead with lawful deed

,

Both the clerk and the knight with evenly l ight .For after that the m an‘

s oweth,Thereafter he m oweth ;And every m an

’

S doom to his ownd0 0 1 cometh .

THUS quoth A lfred :“ The knight behoveth

Cunningly to mow for to weary [relieve] the llandOf hunger

, and of heregong, that the Church haveQ uiet and the chur l [peasant] be inpeace,His seeds to sow

,his m eads to m ow

,

His ploughs to dri ve to our”all behoof

This i s the knight’ s law to look that it well fare.

Here the original, copied by Spelm an, terminates,and as the

manuscript no longer exists,the reader must take the

rem ainder inSpelm an’

s free translation.

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the widow ’s friend, comfort thou'

the poor and shelter theweak ; and with all thy might, 1 ight that which is wrong.

And, son, govern thyself by law, then shall the Lord love

thee, and God above all things shall be thy Reward. Callthouuponhim to advise thee in ed

,and so he

shall help thee the better to compass that thouwouldst .”Inremembrance of king A lfred’ s parliam ent at Shifford we

m ay adduce the testimony of long-lived tradition: the rising

ground, in which the li ttle church stands, is still called the

Court-close, and is well adapted for holding a large assem

bly of people The king’ s -way field,close to ‘

Aston, derives

its name, probably, from the presence of the king . It m ay

also be mentioned that ruins,apparently of a burial-ground,

lying betweenthe present church and the river, attest that Shif

ford was a more considerable place thanit is at present.

From the death of King A lfred in900 till the year 1 046, thehistory of Bampton is again lost in obscurity, from which it

emerges at the tim e whenEdward the Confessor was king

of England,a m anwho would have beena credit to a society

of monks,but

,as a king, was the first cause of all the calami

ties which his people afterwards endured . The chaplainto this

prince was Leofric, who, uponthe unionof the two bishoprics

of Creditonand St . German’ s (the bishopric of Cornwall) in1 046 )

and the removal of them to Exeter, became the first bishop of

that see, and gave to his newly founded cathedral-church at

Exeter his land at Bampton, which after the lapse of eight cen

turies,notwithstanding all the violent religious and political

convulsions which have arisenduring that period, the Deanand

chapter of Exeter still retainintheir possession. For the most

complete account of Leofric, see Godwin, vol. 1 , p . 300 .

HISTO RY O F BAMPTON . cxur.

Inthe A ppendix will be found the charter by which the

church of Exeter still holds its property inBampton: it is co

pied out of a book preserved in the Bodleian library; which

was also givenby Leofric to the church at Exeter.

A . D . 1 086 . A t this time Domesday-book was written,by

order of William the Conqueror. Bampton is thereinm en

tioned inthe following manner

The King holds BENTON (Bampton) . There are twenty seven hides and a half. In the domain are 6 waggons and6 slaves and 40 villains and 1 7 husbandmen, and 1 3 Cottagers (bo rdarii) holders of Bord-land, have 1 6 waggons . Inthe time of king Edward they had 26 waggons :There are four mills of 25 3 . From the fisheries they have

20 shillings . From the meadows 65 shillings . From the

market 50 shi llings . From the pannage and salt-works ofWic and other cus tomary payments, 9 . 1 3 s . From the year

’ scc 1 5 . The soke of two Hundreds belongs to thisr .

Inthe whole it pays by the year 80 pounds and forty Shillings by the tale .

I lbert of Lao holds half a hide by the gift of the Bishop of

Bayeux andWalter, sonof Ponz, holds a certainsmall portion of land ; and Henry de Ferrars holds a certainWood,which Bundy the Forester had . The County affirms that all

this belongs to the KingThe Bishop of Exeter holds of the king six hides inBenton,(Bampton,) and Robert of him Bishop Levric (Leofric) heldit. The land is of six plou Now inthe domain are twoploughs and two slaves and tenvillains with seven Cottagers .They ha ve thr ee ploughs . In that place are two fisheriesof thirty-three Shillings, and forty A cres of Meadow .

”A . D . 1 1 52

,March 1 4: The date of a bull issued by

Pope Eugenius,confirming the possessions of the church of

Exeter. Bampton is therein described as a church divided

into two prebends by the thenBishop of Exeter, Robert Chiches ter —“ut videlicet, si ecclesia illa de Bentune inmelio

cxx HISTO RY O F BAMPTO N .

rem statum temporis processu devenerit, sexaginta solidi ex

inde, si superfuerint, fratrum com munioni proveniant .

”A . D . 1 2 1 8 . This year, according to White Kennet, in

his Parochial Antiquities, page 1 87, inthe sheriff’ s accounts,

Reginald,earl of Boulogne

, answered for lands at“ Bampton.

A . D . 1 249, March 1 0, being the 8th of Edward II . The

date of the Charter by which Aylmer de Valence, earl of Pem

broke obtained a license from the king to make a castle

of his house at Bampton. These are the words of White

Kennet,inhis Parochial Antiquities

, [p but , he re

fers to no authority. Yet the ruins still existing are in direct

harmony with thi s statement, being certainly not more ancient

thanthe date here assigned .

A . D . 1 321 . This year is memorable for the Civil wars which

raged between the king Edward II,

and his barons . The

dissension had begun the year before, but some hopes of a

reconciliation still remained : which however were soon de

stroyed . The cause of the war being renewed is told us

by Geoffery le Baker a native of Swinbroke, and after

wards a monk in' O seney abbey. In the year 1 3 21 the

lady, Q ueen Isabella, about the'

feast of Saint Michael,came

to the Castle of Leeds inKent, wishing to spend the night

there,but adm ittance was denied her. The king, construing

the queen’ s repulse into anaffront uponhimself, comm anded

the neighbouring people, with the m en of Essex and some

Londoners,to besiege the castle.

i

The governor of the for

Galfridile Bak er de Swinbroke Chronicon, edid. It A . Giles , Loud. 8vo,' 1 846 .

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the effigies of him self and wife. [British Trav. vol IV,p

.

A . D . 1 400 . In this year, which ended the reign of Ri

hard ,II, and began “that of his succes sor Henry IV, the

m en of Wantage, Faringdon, Bampton, and no doubt of

Shifford also, which belonged to Henry’ s family, rose infa

vour of Henry anddefeated the earl of Salisbury and other

partisans of king Richard at ~Cirencester [Rymer, Merks’

s

pardon, Nov . 28, 1 400, and Chronicque de la tra'

isen de

Richart, &c . par B . Williams,Lond . 1 841

,p .

A . D . 1 443 . Edmund Wallewaynheld a tenement at A ston,half a yard-land, two acres of meadow

, and two of pasture,

&c .,

‘also a messuage at Cote, one . yard

-land,

'

three acres of

meadow, three of pasture, &c., also at Lewe

,one yard-land .

[Inquisitiones post mortem,IV

,

A . D . 1 540 . To thi s year belongs the followingnotice of

Shapp, alias Heppe abbey, in the county of Westmoreland,

from a Roll, 3 2md of Henry VIII, preserved inthe Augmentation office and quoted in Dugdale

’

s Monasticon, vol. VI,

page 840

Computus m inistrorum domini regis temp . Hen. VIII .

Shappe nuper Monasterium . Com . Westm[ am ong m any other places] CarhulleninBam pfirm . ten. £ 4 . 1 7 s . 4d.

”A . D . 1 543 . This year the m anors and property belonging

to the abbey of Ensham were granted by King HenryVIII to

Edward lord North. [See Appendix, No XIV ]

Kennett ’s Parochial Antiquities , page . set—Q uoted from Leund ’s Collectanea,tom . 1 , p . 328.

HISTO RY O F BAMPTON . cxxiii

A, D . 1 567 . Sir Thomas Chamberlayne is said to have

been lord of the manor of Bampton at this time. He pos

se ssed a MS . from which Dr . Plott gave an account of

different tolls from which Shifford was exempt . [See Plott’ s

Hist. of Oxon.]

A . D . 1 642 . In most parts of England, skirmishes,assaults and salleys were so frequent and so fierce, that allpeople now dreaded and felt the deplorable effects of a civilwar .

”[Echard

’ s Hi st. of Eng. 1 1,

A . D . About this date a battle was fought inA ston

field,betweenthe king

'

S party and the republicans . Perhaps

the two square entrenchments,which still appear on the open

field betweenTen-foot and the Isle ofWight, were thrownupat this time : but I canfindno writt en record either of them

or of the battle.

A. D . 1 6 64. This year the celebrated antiquary, AntonyWood

,paid a visit to Bam pton. We learnthis fact from his

own diary, which was published by Heam e ina work contain

ing the biographies of the three antiquaries, Leland, Heam e,and

Wood. At page 1 92 of the second volum e of that book we

findthe following memorandum

A t Northm ore withM1 . Pet . Nicolls, where we were entertained by Mr. Twyford . Thence wee went to Bampton

,where

wee lodged one night inthe house of Mr. The . Cook,one of

the vicars . The next morning very early I went to the castle ,neare the church there, and took the ruins thereof, and so returu’d to Oxon.

This sketch of the castle is Still preserved among the paper s

of Ant . Wood inthe As hmoleanMuseum at Oxford, No . 8505 .

It is very rudely drawnand inthe present day would be though t

HISTORY O F BAMPTON .

a most contemptible performance, evenfor an amateur : yet it

nevertheless furnishes sufficient data uponwhich, with the as

sistance of the existing ruins, a plan of the west front of the

castle might be constructed with to lerable accuracy.

A . D . 1 6 77 . Dr. Plott’ s History of Oxfordshire was publish

ed thi s year, bearing the following title

The Natural History of Oxfordshire, being an essay toward the N a tural History of England . By R . P [lott] .

LL . D . Printed at the Theater in Oxford, and are to be

had there . And inLondon at Mr . S . Miller s,at the Sta1

near the West-end o f St . Paul’ s Church -

yard .

‘

1 57 7 . The

price in sheets at the press,nine Shillings . To subscribers,

eight Shillings

A . D . 1 700 . Inthe RawlinsonMS ., which was writtenabout

this tim e, I find the following passage, which gives the state

of the manors, &c . about this date .

Lords of ‘

the manor and hundred of Bampton,George

Ta lbot earl of Shrewsbury (his elder b rother being a

abroad) andWilliam Coventry esq. present vicars, 1 . Mr .

JohnEdmonds,M . A . St. John’ s coll . Camb . 2 . Mr . Thomas

Snell, M . A . fellow of Ex . Coll . Oxf. —The Dean and Chapter of Exeter have a wanor here and a t Chimney, leased a t

about 6 00 per an. by Mr. Veisey, and £ 3 00 more by Mrs .

Crofts . Lord of the manor of Shifford is The . Slatter, aliasBacon it was purchased of Sonibank Vesey Lord of them anor of A stonand Coate

,A lanHorde esq.

- Weald belongsto Shrewsbury and Coventry. Haddon belongs to Sir Rob.

Throckmorton. Lew belongs to Shrewsbury and CoventryChurch dedicated to St. Peter .

“ The parsonage or glebe-landwithout any tithes, is lett by the deanand chapter of Exeter toMr . JohnDew at 8 score pounds p . ah .

,renewable every 7th

year ina lease of 2 1 vears . The dean and chapter of Exeterhave the tithes of the several farms

,now lett out to the Rev.

Mr . Wine of Kingston, in value about 1 5 0 lib . p . an.,of

which 20 p . an. is let to Mr . Nabbs .”

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TH U S cwa th Alvred, Engle frofre,H e m a i no riht c ing ben under Crist self,

But he be boclered, and w is o loage,And he hise writes wel icwem e

, and he cunneLetr es locen him selve hu he scal his lendLagelice helden.

”TH U S cwa th A lvred, Engle frofre : “The erl

And the a theling the hen under the cing,The lend to ledenm id lagelic deden.

B ethe the clerc and the cniht dem en evenliche riht

F or after tha t te m an soweth,Therafter he seal m owen;And elfrilces m annes dom to his ogen dure charigeth.

TH U S cwa th A lvred,“The cniht behoveth

Ceneliche to m owenvor to werie the 10nd

O f hunger, and of heregong,Tha t the Chureche have grith, and te cherl be in frith,H is sedes to sewen, hise m edes to m owen,H is plewes to driven to ure alre bilif.

This is the cnihtes lage,to locen that it wel fare, & c .

I I . CHARTERO F LEO FRIC TO THE CHURCH O F EXETER .

A . D . 1 046 .

From anancient MS . preserved inthe Bodleianlibrary [Auctarium , D , 2,

H er swutela th on thissere Christes bee hwaet Leofric bishop haefth gedoninntosancte Petres m instre onExanceastre thee r his biscopstol is, ther is ther he haefthgeinnod ther aer geutod wees thurb Godes fultum and thurb his forespraece andthurb his gaersum a . ther is serest ther land set Culm stoke, and ther land aet Brancescum be, and set Sealtcum be, and ther land set sancte Ma ria circean, and therland aet Stofordtune, and set Swearcanwille, and ther land set Morceshille, and

Sidefullan hiwisc, and ther land a t Brihtricesstane, and ther land se t Toppes

ham m e, theah the Harold hit m id unlage ut nam , and ther land aet Stoke, andther land aet Sydebirig, and ther land set N iwantune, and set Northtune, and therland set Clist the wid haefde . Thonne ys this se ea ca on landum the he haefth of

his agenum ther m inster m idgegodod for his hlaforda sawlum , and for his agenre . tham Godes theowum to bigleofan the for heora sawlam thingiansceolon.

ther ys serest ther land set BEMTUNE, and set ESTTUNE,and set Ceom m enige,

and ther land set Dofl isc, and a t Holacum be,’

and set Suthwuda, and he nefun

APPENDIX, N0 1 1 .

de tha he to tham m instr e feng nanm are landes the thider ynngewylde wm re .

thonne twa hida landes set Ide, and thoeren m e s orf cynnes nanm are butonVI I hrutheru. Thonne ys this seo oncnawennis the he haafthGod m id gecnawen

and sanctum Petrum into tham halganm instre oncirclicum m admum ther is therhe haefth thider ynngedonI I b . rods , and I I m ycele gebonede roda bu tanoth

rum litlum silfrenum swur rodum and I I m ycele Chris tes bec gebonede, and I I Igebonede serin, and I geboned alta re, and V silfrene caliceas, and IV corporales, and I silfrenpipe, and V fulle m aissereaf, and I I dalm a tica , and I I I piste]rocca s, and IV subdiacones handlin, and I I I cantercaeppa, and I I I cantersta fas,andVpaellene weofod scea ta s , and VI I of braedelsas, and I I taeppedu, and I I I bera

scinand VI I setl hrm gel and III ricg-hraegel, and I I wahrefgandV I m aesene- scea la ,

and I I gebonedehnzeppa s,andIVhornas , and I I m ycele gebonede candles ticcan, andVI laes sancandelsticcangebonede,and I silfrenstom ylle m id s ilfrenum s tor- sticcan,

andVI I I leeds s , and I I guthfana , and I m ere [ forte m ere] , andVI m id reca , and Ifirdwaen, and I oyate, and thaernaeronte r butonVI I upphangene bells , andnuthze rs ind XII I upphangene, and XI I handbells and II fulle m ze s se-bec, and I colleetaneum , and I I pistel-bec, and I I fulle sang-bee, and I niht—sang, and I Ad te

levavi, and I tropere, and I I salteras , and se thriddansaltere swa m an singth on

Rom e, and I I ymneras , and I deorwyrthe bletsing-boc , and I I I othre, and I'

Buglise Christes boc, and I I sum er reading-bee, and I winter raeding-boc, and

Regula canonicorum , and Martyrologium , and I canon on leden, and I scrift

boo on Buglise, and I full spell boc, w intres and sum eres, and Boeties boc on

Engliss , and I m ycel Buglise boc ; be gehwilcum thingum on leeth wirange

werbt,and he nefunde on tham m ynstrc tha he to feng boca na m a buton

ane capitularia, and I for ealdodne nihtsang, and I piste] boc, and I I for ealdode raeding bec sw ithe wake, and I wac m aess ereaf. And thur fela ledenboca he beget inn to them m ynstrc liber pas tor alis, and liber dialogorum , and

libr i IV propheta rum ,and liber B oetii de consola tione, and I sagoge Porphyrii,

and I pass ionalis, and liber Prosperi, aud liber Prudent ii Physom a chize , and

liber Prudentii hym norum , and liber Prudentii de m artyribus, and liber Ezechielis prophetae , and Cantica Canticorum , and liber Isa ise prophetae on sun

dron, and liber Isidori etym ologiarum , and passiones apostolorum , and ex

pos itio Bedae super evangelium Lucas , and expositio Bedee super Apocalypsim ,

and expos itio Bedze super V I I epistolas canonicas , and liber Is idori de novoet veteri te s tam ento, and liber Isidori de m ira culis Christi

,and liber O sern, and

liber Machabeorum ,and liber Persii, aud S edulies boc, and liber A ra toria, and

diadem a m ona chorum , and Glosae S ta tii, and liber officialis A m alarii.

And ofer his deeg he annhis capellan thider binnan forth m id him S ilfum

on callum tham thingum the he silf dide m id Godes theninge on ther gera dther tha Godes theowas the theer binnanbeoth m fre his sawle gemunon m id

heora gebedum and m aesse- sangum to Christe and to senete Petre and to

ca llum tham ba lgum the thei‘

halige m inister is fore gehalgod ther his sawle

beo gods the anfengre, and se the thas gyfu, and thisne unnau wille Gods , andsancte Petr e se t B redansi him heofena rice ze tbroden, and s i he ecelice genitherodinto belle wite .

6 H ISTORY or BAMPTON

I I I . SURVEY O F BAMPTON, A . D . 1 0 86 .

From Dom esday Book , written in the reign of William the Conqueror and preserved in the chapter~house a t Westm inster . This valuable record has -beenprinted by the Com m is sioners in5 volsfolio but with abbrevia tions , a s in the O rig inal ; which m akes it diffi cult to read : that the ex

tract m ay be m ore perspicuous and intelligible, it is here printed without abbreviati ons .

[DOME SDAY B O O K , TH E PRINTED E D I TI ON V O L . I , P .

Rex tenet BENTONE : ibi sunt XXVI I hidas et dim idia . In dom inio suntVI carree , et VI servi, et XL villani, et X VI Iburi, et XI I I bordar ii : habent XVIcarra s tem po re Regis Edwardi habebant XXV I carra s .

Ibi qua tuor m olini [m olinae] , XXV solidorum . D e piscarns XX solidos ; depra tis LXV solidos ; de m erca to L solido s ; de pa snagio et salinis de Wic et aliis

consuetudinibus hom inum IX libra s et X I I I solidos ; de annona anni XV libra s .

S oca duorum hundredorum per tinet huic m anerio .

Inter totum r eddit per annum quatuor XX libr ’

a s et XL solidos ad num e

rum .

D im idium hidas tenet Ilbertus de Laci, dono Episcopi B a iooensis : et Walterus

filius Penz tenet quandam par ticulam terrae ; et Henricus de F ereires tenet quandam silvam

,quam tenuit Bundi forestarius .

H oe totum testa tur com ita tus pertinere ad dom inium regis .

[A LSO VO L I , PAGE 155 , N O . v.]

TERRA EP I S CO P I DE EX ECES TRE .

Episcopus Exoniensis tenet de rege VI hida s inBENTONE, et Robertus de eo

Leuric episcopus tenuit. Terr a es t V carrarum ; nunc indom inio duae carree , e t

duo servi ; et X villani cum VI I bordariis . H abent VI I carra s . Ibi I I piscarizede XXXI I I solidis, et XLVI I I a creas pra ti. Tem pore regis Edwardi, valebantIV libris

,m odo VI libris .

IV . CHA RTER O F K ING HENRY 1 1 1 , DATED MARCH 1 0 , 1 249,

GRANT ING THE MANO R O F BAMPTON TO W ILL IAMDE VA LENCE.

Am ong the Records inth e custody of the Ma ster of the Rolls , pur suant to S ta t . l and 2 Vict . ,cap. 94, and preserved in the Tower of London; to wi t , Charter -roll of the 33rd year of the reign

of k ing H enry the Third, m em b : 5 , it is thus contained :

C HA RTA PRO W IL REX A R CH IEPIS CO P I S , & c . SA LU TEM,

Sol a tl s 1

1

1

1

0 8 de d

LIELMO DE VA L Isse , conceSSIsse, e t hac char ta nos tra con rm a sse,

ENT IA .

dilecto fratr i et fideli nostro, Willielm o de Valentia ,totum m anerium nostrum de BAMPTON,

cum hun

dredo, dom inicis, hom agns, reditibus, villenagiis, et om nibus aliis pertinentiis suis

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8 HISTORY O F BAMPTON,

Craule, Roberto de Eleford, Roberto le Paum er de Welds , Ricardo de Hanton,S tephano F rankeland de Welde, Henrico de H euptes eye, Radulfo de F ileking,Roberto de S toke, Nicholao B iron de Clanefend, at Johanne de Fifhyde, superar ticulis a praedictis justitiis, praedictis duodecim deliberatis, scilicet inquirere

Q U I dicunt super sa cram entum , quod dom inus WillelmusBAMPTON de Valentia tenet inBam ptonduas caruca ta s terrae de dom i

no rege incapite,et I mam caruca tam terrae quam habuit deJohanne filio Paulini : et idem Johannes tenuit dictam caruca tam terrae de dom inico dom ini regis : et ha bet liberta tem et liberum hundredum forinsecus, ita quodhabebit r eturnum om nium brevium dom ini regis quae vicecom iti diriguntur et

quae liberta tem illam consuevit : et habet m erca tum ct feriam : et habuit przEdi ctum tenem entum de dono Henrici regis, pa tris Edwardi regis qui nunces t, cum omnibus liberta tibus praenom inatis ; sed ignorant quo servitio nec quowarranto .

DO II IN U s, Robertus Ppgey s tenet inBam pton, in dom inico, utBAMPTON in dom inico, unarncarucatam terrae de dom ino Willelm o de

PO GEYS Valentia , et reddit eidem per annum octodecim denarios vel

unum ensem , et idem Willielm us tenet de dom ino rege inpite ; habet etiam liberta tem visi franciplegii de hom ihibus suis ; et hom inesdebent apparere in curia dom ini Willelm i de Valencia , ad prox im am curiampost fes tum sancti Micha elis s ine occas ione .

ITEM idem Robertus habet III eadem Im am caruca tam terr ae de perquisitione de divers is, videlicet 40 a creas de dom ino Milone de Hasting : et idemM ilo tenuit de Benedicto de Blachum et idem de dom ino rege : item dim idium virga tes terr ae de Johanne Paulino et idem de dom ino Willelm o de

,Va

lance, et idem Willelm us de dom ino rege in capite.

c a a s Wolwy tenet inA ston unum m essuagium , et unarn

A STO N virgatam t errae de dom ino Roberto Pogey s, et reddit per

SERVITIA annum eidem pro reuitu 4 solidos et 4 denarios, ob

pro opere et servitio 8 solidos et 6 denarios quae. qui‘a,

taxantur .

WILLELMU S Wolwy , Robertus Bobbe, Ricardus le Eaum er, Thom as B alwithe,

Willielm us O rchard, cum Waltero Mart in, Johannes Hem m ing, Engelys relic ta

Johanm s Gilberti, Em m a S tephanu. Ricardus Ayline, Ma tilda de la,

Garston,Willelm us de la Barre, R ica rdus H ogenon, Ma tilda de Me, Walterius North,I sabella Lunett, Rogerus Midewinter, Walterus Ernald, Will elm us North, HugoH alyday , Walterus Halyday, Rogerus B olebebs,Willielmus King, cum RobertoSefoul, R icardus Kets e, A gne s Faber, Willelm us Newm an, Hugo Bulbebs, HugoJurdan, quilibet praescriptorum tenet consiinile tenem entum in A ston de

dicto Rober to Pogeys pro consim ili servitio, sicut Rica rdus Wolwy pra is criptus .

'

R ICA IIDU s Salem an tenet in eodem unum m essuagium , et unam virga tam

terrae, de eodem ,et r eddit per annum eidem 5 solidos et 5 denarios pro red

itu; pro opere et serI itiO 7 solidos et 9 denarios, ob quae & c .

APPENDIX, No VI . 9

WIELELII U S Jurdah , Philippus Orchard, Rogerus Le te, Walterina Edwicb,Willelmus a la frayne, Thom a s Pisca tor, Rogerus Dod, cum Rogero French,Thom as de la Cote, quilibet praescriptorum tenet consim ile tenem entum in

A s ton de eodem pro consim ili servitio faciendo eidem,

‘

sicut Rica rda sSalem an.

Ro s ER '

rus de la Co te te'

ne t'

inea dem unum m essuagium et Im am

terrae do eodem et reddit per annum e idem 4 solidos, ob.

W ILLELMU S de la'

Co te tenet in eodem unum m essuagrum , et unam virgatam

terrzE , de eodem , et reddit per annum eidem 4 solidos , ob.

M AT I LDA relic ta C a re c ta rum , tenet in eodern unum m esstiagium et dim idium

virga tae terrae de eodem , e t reddi t per annum eIdem pro reditu 4 solidos et 5

dena rios pro ope re praadic to, ob qum quia taxantur.

AREA S Eygn[sham iens is] tenet inA ston unum m essuagium

LIBRI e t unam virga ta m terrae de Roberto Pogeys, et reddit p'

er

TENENTES annum dom ino Roberto Pogeys 5 solidos et 2 denarios .

I DEM abbas tenet unam ’

virga tam terrae inpuram et perpetuam eleemOsynamunde

,nesc im us quo warranto .

RoGERus Doyly tenet in villa de Bam pton 4 caruca tas'

terr ae,

BAMPTON in dom inico, dé dom ino Hugone de Plec . et idem Hugo dedom ino rege in capite , et debet scutagium et habet liberam

pis caturam in tribus' gurgitibus : et habe t in bosco qua: voca tur B oynale, husbote et heybote .

VI. PLEAs or A SS IZE HELD AT OXFORD, IN‘

TIIE Isa. YEARO F EDWARD I

,

’

[A . D .

From the Rolls at Ca rltonRide .

Placita de juratis et as sizis coram Salomone de Roffs,Ricardo de

Boylund, Ro berto Fulcon, Galfrido de Picbeford et Rogero Loveday,justiciariis itinerantibus apud Oxford incras tino Sancti H ilarii, annoregni regis Edwardi tertiode'cim '

o . Fa lcon.

ROTULO I I .

Pla cita'

. dom ini regis apud Fulcon.

WILLBLMU S de Valentia sum m onitus fuit ad respondendum dom ino regi, quo

warr anto clam a t habere retum um brevium , plac itum de nam io vetito, furc am ,

et em endum a ss ise panis et cervis iaa fa ctae in Bam pton, quire ad coronam et

dignit a tem suam pert inent et debentur .

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ET W l LLl B LM U S venit, et dic it, quod dom inus Henricus rex,pa ter dom ini

regis nunc, dedit ei m aner ium cum hundredo, et cum om nibus liberta tibus ad

ea pert inentibus, ad quas m aner ium , et hundredum , furca et em end. a ssise panis et

cervis iaa fa ctae per tinent per praedictam cha r tam quam profert, e t quae hoc testa tur ,e t quoad retornum brevium et plac itum denam io vet ito, dicit quod quidam com es

B ononiensis tenuit prm dictum m anerium cum hundredo de dom ino Henrico r ege,

patre dom ini regis unne , ,

s t dicit quod eo tem pore quo idem com es tenuit m ane

rium praedictum cum hundredo, habuit retornum brevium et tenuit pla citum de

nam io vetito, tanquam pertinentia ad hundredum praedic tum : et postea praed icta Inanerium et hundredum devenerunt ad m enus ips ius dom ini Henrici regis tanquam esca eta sua : idem dom inus Henricus rex , eo tem pore quo ea tenuit inm anu sua , tenuit pla citum de nam io vetito e t habuit retornum brevium in eisdem ,

tanqua m ad eadem m anerium et hundredum per tinentia : et idem dom inusH enricus rex pos tm odum m anerium et hundredum cum pertinentiis eidemWillelm o dedit et conces sit, tenendum sibi e t heredibus suis de ux ore sua

procr ea tis , de ipso dom ino rege et heredibus suis , et profert chartam ipsius

dom ini Henrici regis quaa testa tur quod idem dom inus Henricus rex dedIt et

concessit eidem Willelm o praedictum m anerium cum hundredo, dom inicis,hom agiis, redi tibus, villenagiis , et om nibus ali is pertinentiis, sine aliquo retine

m ento, ex ceptis quibusdam terris qua s pr ius dedit Huber to de Pugey s ineodem

m anerio, habendum e t tenendum eidem Willelm o et hzeredibus suis de uxoresua procrea tis ,bene,et inpa ce , quiete et integre cum om nibus liber ta t ibus et liberisconsuetudinibus ad eadem pertinentibus, et dic it quod eo warranto habe t ipseretornum brevium , et clam a t habere pla citum de nam io vetito .

ET W I LLELMU S de Giselham , qui sequitur pro dom ino rege, dicit quod haberer eturnum brevium ,

e t tenere pla citum de nam io vetito pertinet ad coronam

e t dignita tem dom ini regis, et qua s liber ta tes nem o clam are potest sine warranto

speciali a dom ino rege vel antecessorum suorum , et dicit quod inpraedicta char ta,quam praedictus Willelm us de Valentia profer t, nulla fi t m ent io de aliquo r etor

IIO brevium vel pla c itorum de nam io vetito . Unde petit judicium pro dom inorege .

[ROTULO IX , IN DORso .]

Dc jura t is et a ssisis apud O xon. & c . Fulcon.

WILLELM U S de Valencia , Rogerius de Engepenne, Johannes le bedel de Dam pton, et R ogerus de Weston, sum m oniti fuerunt ad responsum Ceciliae de Musoegros, de pla cito quare praedicti Willelm us e t a lii averia ipsius Cecilias ceperunt e tinjuste'

detinuerunt e t cur et unde quer itur quod quum praedictiWillelm us et alii,die Sabba ti proxim a post festum Sanc ti H ilarii, anno regni regis nunc undecim o

,

ceperunt qua tuor j um enta ipsius Cecilias invilla de A lvescote e t ea fugaverunt us

que ad m anerium ipsius Willielm i de Bam pton, ct ea ibidem detinuerunt contra

vadium e t plegium , a przEdictO die usque diem Veneris prox imum ante festnm

Sancti Johannis ante por tam Latinam , anno supradic to quod delibera ta fuerunt

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ta ! brevium . et placitorum de nam io vetito'

, et habe t furcam , pillariani et tumberellam et em end. assise panis et cervicia et feriam invigilia et indie A s sum ptionis bea ta Maria , et m ercatum per quem libet diem Mercurii, et in

‘

dualibetseptim ana, nesciunt quo wa rr anto . Et super hoc venit Willielm us de Giselham

qui sequitur pro dom ino rege , et dicit quod habet brevia '

de Q uo Wa rranto sua:

per hujusm odi liberta tes, et sim iliter Rober tus de Grey habet in villa de

H erdewick visum franci plegii, furcam , tum berellam , e t em end. a ssisa in panis e t

cervis ia e t Johannes Mendut, O sbertus Giffard, Johannes.

de Bosco, e t R0 4

bertus de Grey, clam ant habere m erca tum in m anerio de Stanlak e singuliaseptim anis per diem Veneris e t sim iliter in eodem m aner io habet furcam , tum

derellam , pillariam , et em endum as sis. panis et cervicia ,nesciunt quo warran

to. Ideo pra dicta liber ta tes, quoad pra dictOs Robertum '

de Grey e t alios, ca

piantur in m anum dom ini regis . & c .

V I I . INQU IS ITIO N O F K ING EDWARD I I, DATED NO V. 28 , AND

DEC . 1 3 1 3 .

Am ong the Records inthe custody of the Mas ter of the Rolls pursuant to Sta t . 1 and 2 9 .

0

and preserved inthe Tower of London; to wi t , Inqui sitionof the 6th year ofKing Edward the SecondNo . 70 , it is thus contained

EDWA RDU s , DEI GRAT IA R EX ANGLI IE , DO M IN U S H IB ERN I IE, ET Dux A Q U ITANN IE ,

‘

D I LECT O ET P IDE L I s U O ROGERO DE WELLE SWO RTH ES CA ET O R I s oo C IT RA T RENTAM ,

S ALU TEM . Mandam us vobis quod, per sa c ram entum proborurnet legalium hom inum de balliva vestra , per q uos r ei verita s m elius sciri poterit, diligenter inquira tissi sit ad dam num vel pra judicium nostrum aut aliorum , si concedam us dilecto etfideli nostro, Rober to Pogeys, quod ipse m anerium suum de Es tdels cum pertinen

tiis , et unam caruca tam terra , et tres a cras bosci, cum pertinentiis , in Cha thamjuxta Roffam ,

incom ita tuKancia , qua de nobis tenentur in capite, ut dicitur,dare pos sit et concedere Thom a Pogeys et Benedicta uxori ejus, habenda

'

et ten

enda e isdem Thom a e t Benedicta , et ha redibus ipsius Thom a, de corpore suo

legitim e procrea tis , de nobis e t ha redibus nos tris per servitia inde debi ta et con

sua ta in perpetuum .

'

Et s i idem ~Thom as obierit sine ha rede de corpore suo legi

tim e procrea to, tunc pra dicta , m anerium ,terr a, et boscus , cum pertinentiis, ad

pra fa tum Robertum et ha redes suos integre revertantur, tenenda denobis et ha redibus nostr is per servitia pra dic ta inperpetuum , necne . Et si sit ad dam num vel

pra judicium nos trum aut aliorum , tunc ad quod dam num et quod pra judiciumnostrum ,

et ad quod dam num et quod pra judicium aliorum , et quorum , et qualiter,e t quo m odo, et si pra dicta , m aner ium , terra , et boscus, de nobis teneantur incapite, s icut pra dictum est, ande alio, et si de nobis, tunc per quod servitium , qua

liter , et quo m odo; et si de alio, tunc de quo, vel de quibus, et per quod servi

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tium ,et qualiter, et quo m odo, et quantum valeant per annum , in om nibus

exitibus , juxta verum valorem eorundem . Et qua terra et qua tenem enta

eidem Roberto rem aneant, ultra dona tionem e t conces s ionem pra dicta s , et ubi,

et de quo , vel de quibus teneantur ; utrum videlicet de nobis , an de alio,et

s i de nobis, tunc pe r quod servitium , et qua liter, et quo m odo, et si de alio,

tune de quo, vel de quibus, et per quod servitium , et qualiter, et quo m odo, et

quantum valeant per annum ,inom nibus exitibus .

Et Inquisitionem inde distincte et aper te fa ctam , nobis sub sigillo vestro

et s igillis eorum , per quos fa cta fuerit, sine dila tions m itta tis et hoc

breve.

Tes te m e ipso apud Wyndesore, XXV I I I die Novem bris, anno regni nostriipsum regem .

KA N C XA .

IN Q U IS IT IO fa cta coram Es caetore dom ini regis apud Es tdelse, die Martis prox i

m a.

post festum Sanc ti N ichola i, anno regni regis Edwardi sexto, per Johannemde Suthewyk , Nicholaum de Woldeham ,

Robertum de B etles com be, Gilbertum

Gildewynes, Moysem Lacy, Ricardum le Fors tier, Jchannem Rogier, Johannema tte Halle, Clem entem le Chandelier, Robertum la Haywa rd, Rogerum le Chandelier, et Gilbertum le Hayward . Q U I D IC U NT per sa cram entum suum ,

quod nonest ad dam num vel pra judicium dom ini regis , aut aliorum , s i rex conceda t Ro

berto Pogeys , quod ipse m anerium suum de Es tdelse cum pertinentiis , et unamcaruca ta m terra , et tr es acra s bos ci cum pertinentiis, in Chetham juxta Roffam ,

incom ita tuKancia , dare pos ait et concedere Thom a Pogeys et Benedicta uxoriejus , habenda et tenenda eisdem Thom a et Benedic ta , et ha redibus ipsius Thom a ,

de corpore suo legitim e procrea ti s : et, si idem Thom a s obierit sine harede de corpore legitim e procreato , tune pra dicta, m anerium , terra , et bo sens, cum pertin

entiis ad pra fa tum Robertum et ha r edes suos integre rever tantur, tenenda dedom ino rege et ha redibus suis per servitia inde debita e t consue ta inperpetuum .

ET D ICU NT quod pra dictum m anerium de Estdelse non tenetur de dom ino regeim m edia te, sed tenetur de N Icholao de Merewerth, per servitium duorum teodorum Militum et dim idii, e t valet per annum inom nibus exitibus XX libras : ET

D IC U N T quod pra dicta caruca ta terra , et tres acra hos oi, cum pertinentiis, in

Che tham tenentnr de dom ino rege, ut de castro dom ini regis de Ledes per servit ium quart a partis feOdi unius m ilitis quod quidem ca s trum

, cum pertinentiis,Margareta r egina Anglia tenet ad term inum vita sua ex a ss igna tione dom iniEdw a rdi .

quondam regis Anglia , pa tris regis nunc, e t valent terra illa, bo scus, perannum inom nibus ex itibus X m arca s . D IO U NT ET IAM quod rem anent pra fa to

Roberto, ultr a dona tionem e t conces sionem pra dicta s , m aner ium de Stokepogeys

incom ita tu Buckingham ,quod tenetur de Johanne de Som eri per servitium m ili

ta re, et valet per annum , inom nibus ex itibus, C m arca s , et m edietas m anerii de

Bam ptonin com ita tuO xonia , qua tenetur de dom ino A dam aro de Valencia ,

1 4 H ISTORY O F BAMPTON

com i te Pem broke, per servitium m ilitare, et valet per annum , in omnibus BX ItP

bus, C m arca s .

Incujus rei tes tim om um pra dicti Jura ti huic Inquisitioni sigilla sua apposuerunt.

VI I I . INQUISIT ION OF KING EDWARD I I,DATED

D ec . 9 . and 2 0 , A . D . 1 327

Am ong the Records inthe Custody of the Mas ter of the Rolls , pursuant to S a t . 1 and 2 Vict . , cap.

94, and preserved in the Tower of London, to wit , Inquisitionof the 2oth year of the reignof KingEdward the Second , No . 1 1, it is thus conta ined .

EDWARDU s, Dei gr a tia Rex Anglia , et Dom inus Hibernia , dilecto sibi Thom a

de H arpedene, escaetori suo incom ita tibus Wiltes, Southam pton, O x onia ,Berks,

Bedford, et Buckingham , Salutem . MAN DAMUS vobis, quod per sacram entumproborum et legalium hom inum de balliva vestra , per quos rei verita s m eliuss ciri poter it, diligenter inquira tis, si s it ad dam num vel pra judicium nostrum

aut aliorum , s i concedam us dilecto et fideli nostro,'

RicardO Talebot junior i e t

Elizabetha uxor i ejus quod ipsi de m aneriis suis de Policote in dicto com ita tu

Buckingham , Bam pton in dicto com ita tuO X Onia , et Colingburn in dicto com i

ta tu Wilte s, cum p ertinentiis, qua de nobis tenentur incapite, ut dicitur , feoffarepossint dilectum et fidelem nostrum Gilbertum Talebot, et Thom am fra trem

ejus, habendis e t tenendis s ibi et ha redibus s u is,de nobis et ha redibus nos

tr is , per servitia inde debita et consueta in perpetuum . ITA quod iidem Gilber tus

et Thom a s , habita inde plena et pa cifl ca seisina, dare possint et concedere m an

eria pra dicta , cum pertinentiis, pra fa tis Ricardo et Elizabetha , habenda et ten

enda s ib i e t ha redibus de corpor ibus suis exeuntibus, de nobis et ha redibus

nostris, per servitia pra dicta inperpetuum : et s i idem Ricardus et Elizabethaobierint s ine ha rede de corporibus suis exeunte, tunc m aneria pra dicta , cum

pert inentiis , rec tis ha redibus pra dicti Ricardi rem aneant, tenenda de nobiset ha redibus nostris , per servit ia pra dicta in perpetuum ,

necne : et si sit ad

dam num vel pra judicium nostrum aut aliorum ,tunc ad quod damnum , et quod

pra judicium nostrum , et ad quod dam num , et quod pra judicium aliorum , et

quorum ,et

xqualiter , et . quo m odo, et utrum m aneria pra dicta , cum per tinentiis,

teneantur de nobis i‘ncapite, s icut pra dictum est, ande alio ; et si de nobis, tuncper quod servitium , et qualiter, et quo m odo; et si de alio, tunc de quo, vel de

quibus, et per quod servitium , et qualiter, et quo m odo, et quantum valeant

per annum inom nibus exitibus, juxta verum valorem eorundem ,et si qua terra

et tenem enta pra fa tis Ricardo et Elizabetha r em aneant ultra m aner ia pra dicta ,et

ubi, et de quo, vel de quibus tene antur, utrum videlicet denobis, ande alio, et si

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cap. 94, and preserved inthe Tower of London, t o wit , Inquisitionof the reignof King Edwardthe Th ird , [ l st nrs . ) No. 3 7 , it i s thus conta ined .

EDWA RDU S, D ei gra tia r ex Anglia , Dom inus Hibernia , et dux A quitannia ,

dilecto et fideli suo Sim oni de B ereford ., esca tori suo ultra Trentam ,

s alutem .

QU IA Robertus de Eleford, qui de nobis tenuit in capite, diem claus it ex tre

m um ,ut a ccepim us, vobis m andam us, quod om nes terra s et tenem enta

, de qui

bus idem Robertus fuit seisitus , in dom inico suo, ut de feodo, inballiva vestra ,die quo obiit, sine dila tione capia tis inm anum nos tram , et ea salvo custodiri fa cia tis,donec aliud inde pr a ceperim us . ET per sa cram entum proborum et legalium

hom inum de balliva vestra , per quos rei veritas m elius scit i poter it, diligenter inquira tis, quantum terr a idem Robertus tenui t de nobis in capite in balliva

vestra , die quo obiit, et quantum de aliis , et per quod servitium, et quantum ter

ra illa valeant per annum in om nibus ex itibus, et qu is propinquior ha res ejuss it, et cujus a ta tis . ET inquis itionem ,

inde distincte et aper te fa c tam ,nobis sub

s igillo vestro, et s igillis corum per quo s fa'

cta fuerit, sine dila tione m itta tis, et hocbreve .

TESTE Ine ipso apud Eborum , XXVI die Januarn, anno regni nostri se

cundo .

[ IN DO Rso Oxonia]

O XO N IA .

IN Q U IS IT IO capta coram Sim one B ereforde, Esca tore dom ini regis c itra Tren

tam ,apud Elevorde, quar todecim o die Februar ii, anno regni regis Edwardi Tertii

pos t conquestum secundo, j uxta tenorem brevis dom ini regis huic Inquisit ioniconsuti , per s a cram entum JOhanm s de Ca rs ewelle, Stephani de Crotebrugg, Henr ic i de Gra ftone , JolIannIs de Erles toke, JohannIs de Stoke, Henrici de F ifide, Johannis de Fernhulle, J ohannIs Richem an

,.I ohannis Everm ond, Ada le Parker, Ri

cardi Stonhard, Johannis de Lyvorde, et Johannis de Lewe . Q U I D ICU NT

quod Robertus de Elevorde obiit die Martis proxim a ante festum SanctorumFabiani et Seba s tiani,seisitus indom inico sno ,ut de feodo de quibusdam tenem entis,cum pertinentiis, in Cote et A stone,in com ita tu O xonia , et est ibi unum m es

suagium ,quod valet per annum XX denarios . ITEM sunt ibidem 5 2 a cra ter-w

r a in dom inico, qua valent per annum 8 solidos, 8 denarios, pretium a cra 2

denarii. ITEM sunt ibidem 6 a cra pra ti, qua valent per annum 6 solidos ,pretium a cra 1 2 denarii. ITEM sunt ibidem quinque Na tivi, qui reddunt perannum 1 4 solidos, solvendos ad qua tuor anni term inos, videlicet ad festum

Sancti M icha lis, Sancti Thom a apostoli, Annuncia tionis bea ta Maria,et fes

tum Sancti Jchannis Baptista , per a quales portiones . Et opera eorundem Na t ivorum

,ad pra ta falcanda et blada m etenda

,valent per annum 2 solidos 1 1

denarios . ITEM sunt ibidem tres Coterelli, qui reddunt per annum 6 solidossolvendo s ad pra dicta festa , per a quales por tione s , IT EM dicunt, quod pradicta terra e t tenem enta in Cote et A stone tenentur de dom ino rege in capiteper servitium essendi cum arcu et s agittis, sine aliqua alia arm a tura, in qua

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libet guerra dom ini regis, infra regnum suum , per quadraginta dies ad cos

tum suum proprium . ITEM dicunt quod idem Robertus tenuit die supradicto

in Lewe, in pra dicto ~

com ita tu O xonia ,duos liberos tenentes, qui reddunt

per annum 8 solidos 9 denar ios solvendos ad festum Sancti M icha lis 4 soli

dos, 9 denarios , e t ad festum Annunciationis bea ta M aria Virginia 4 8 0h

dos , pro om ni servitio . IT EM sunt ibidem duo Na tivi, qui reddunt per annum6 solidos , solvendos ad festa Sancti Thom a A postoli, Annuncia tionis beataMa ria ,

et Sanc ti Johannis Bap tista , per a quales portiones . Et Opera eorun

dem duorum Na tivorum , ad pra ta falcanda et blada m etenda, valent 1 6

denarios .

ITEM dicunt quod pra dicta terr a et tenem enta inLewe tenentur de dom ino regeincapite,per servitium portandi unum ostor ium coram dom ino rege, quum dom inus rex voluerit,ad costus dom ini regis . ITEM dicunt, quod idem Robertus tenuitdie supradicto, apud Elevorde, inpra dicto com ita tuO xonia ,

unum m essuagium

cum gardino, qua valent pe r annum 2 denar ios . I TEM sunt ibidem a cra terra

indom inico, qua valent per annum 6 solidos, 8 denarios, pretium acra 2 denarii. ITEM sunt ibidem sex acra pra ti, qua valent per annum 6 solidos, pretiuma cra 1 2 denarii. ITEM sunt ibidem tres Coterelli, qui reddunt per annum 4 soli

dos , 1 dena rium ,solvendos ad pra dicta qua tuor fes ta , per a quales portiones .

ET ope ra eorundem ,ad blada m etenda , valent per annum 1 0 denarios . I TEM

dicunt quod pra dicta , terra et tenem enta , tenentur de Johanne de Grey, Robertode Morby , e t Rolando de Has tings , per servitium 1 0 solidorum per annum . ITEMdicunt quod Robertus de Elevorde, filius Roberti de Elevorde defuncti, est propinquior ha res ejus et est a ta tis viginti quinque annorum , et am plius .

In cujus rei te stim onium pra dicti j ura ti huic Inquisitioni sigilla sua apposue

runt.DA TA die, anno, et loco, supradictis .

X . GRANT O F FREE-WARREN TO RICHARD TA LBOT,DATED

14 EDWARD I I I, A . D . 1 341 , A PRIL 1 0 .

Am ong the Records inthe custody of the Mas ter of the Ro lls , pursuant to S tat . 1 and 2 Vict ., cap.

94, and pre se rved inthe Tower of London, to w it , Charter Roll of the 14th year of the reignof KingEdward the Third , No 37 , it is thus conta ined .

PRO RICARDO REX EISDEM , [ A RCH IEPI scor rs, EP IS CO P I S, ARBAT IB U S

,

TALEBO I‘

DE PR IO R IB U S, C O M IT I sus, B A RON IB U S, J U ST IT IA R I IS , VICECO M I

WARENNA . T IRU S , PRE P O S IT I S, M IN ISTR Is ET O MN I BU S B ALL IVI S ET

F IDELIB U S sm s] SALU TEM. Sc IA T Is nos de gra tia nos tra speciali concessisse, et

hac charta nostra confi rm as se dilecto et fideli nostro Rica rdo Talebot, quod ipseet ha redes sui inperp etuum habeant liberam Wa rennam

, in om nibus dom inicisterris suis de Bam pton, in com ita tuO xonia , e t Polycote iu com ita tu Buckingham ,

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a c Godrych Ca ste] inm archiis Wallia , dum tam en terra illa non sint

1 8 H I STO RY OE BA MPTON,

infra m eta s foresta nostr a . ITA quod nullus intret terra s illa s '

ad fugandum ine is, vel ad aliquid capiendum , quod ad wa rennam per tinea t, sine licentia et

volunta te ips ius Ricardi, vel ha redum suorum, super forisfa cturam nostram

decem librarum . Q UA RE volum us & c . D UM tam en& c . IT A & c . H is testibus ,Venerabilibus Pa tribus J . Cantuariensi archiepiscopo, totius Anglia prim a te ,

R . Dunelm ensi et S . Eliensi episc0pis, Johanne de Warenna com ite Surr ia ,

Willielm o de Bohun com ite N orham pton, Henrico de Percy, Johanne Darcysenescallo hospitiinostr i, et a lns .

Data per m anum nostram apud Wes tm ona sterium ,X 0 die Aprilis. [Per

breve de priva to sigillo.]

XI . INQU IS IT ION O F 3oth EDW . I I I, O CT . 3 0 AND NOV. 20 ,

A . D . 1 35 7 .

Am ong the Record s inth e cust ody of the Master of the Rolls , pursuant to S ta t . l' and 2' Vict . cap. 94,

and pre served inthe T ower of London; to w it , Inquisit ionof the 3oth year of the reignof King Edward the Th ird [ l st nrs .] NO . 5 1 , it is thus contained :

EDWA RDU S , D E I GRAT IA R EX A NGL I JE ET F RA N cuE , ET DO M I N U S H I B ERN U E, D I

LECT O S IEI JO H A NN I LA U N DELS , ESCE T O R I SU O IN C O M IT A T I EU S O XO NUE ET BERKS . ,

SALUTEM . QU IA Ricardus Talbot, qui denobis tenuit incapite, diem clausit eX

trem um ,ut a ccepim us, tibi pra cipim ns, quod om nes terra s et tenem enta , de qui

bus idem Ricardus fuit seis itus, in dom inico suo ut de feodo, inballiva tua , die

quo Obiit, sine dilatione capia s inm anum nostrum , et ea s alvo custodiri fa cia s ,donec aliud inde pra ceperim us . ET per sa cram entum proborum et legalium

hom inum de balliva tua , per quos rei verita s m elius seiri poterit , diligenter Inquira s, quantum terr a idem Ricardus tenuit de nobis in capite, tam in dom inicoquam inservitio, inballiva tua , die quo ob iit

,et quantum de aliis, et per quod

servitium ,e t quantum terr a illa valeant per annum inom nibus ex itibus, et quis

propinquior ha res ejus sit, et cujus a ta tis . ET Inquisitionem ,inde distincte “

et

aper te fa ctam ,nobis sub sigillo tuo, et sigillis eorum per quos facta fuerit, sine

dila tione m itta s et hoc breve .

Teste m e ipso apud Westm onasterinm , XXX die O ctobris, anno regni nostri Anglia tr icesim o, regni vero nostri Francia decim o septim o . HA UK .

[ IN D OR so]Executio et responsio istius brevis patent in Inquisitione huic brevi con

suta .

IN Q U I S IT IO fa cta apud Bam ptoncoram Jphanne Laundels esca etore dom ini regisincom ita tu O x onia vicesim o quinto die N ovem bris, anno regni regis Edwarditertii a conquestu Anglia tr ices im o, et Francia decim o septim o, j uxta tenorembrevis dom ini regis huic inquisitioni consuti, per sacram entum Radulphi de Fre

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O X O N IA .

IN Q U IS IT IO fa c ta apud Bam p ton i i com ita tu O x onia , XXI die D ecem bris ,

anno regni regis Edwa rdi Ter tii po st conquestum tr ices im o s exto , cornIn Johannede Es tbury , Esca tor e dom ini r egis in com ita tu pra dicto, v ir tu te cujusdam bre

vis dioti dom ini regis , e idem Esca tori directi, e t huic Inquisitioni consut i, per

s a cram entum J ohannis S tokes, J ohannis Chaum berleyn, Thom a Ba tyn, JohannisF ernhull, VValter i Croh, Willielm i Lom enour , Johannis Child, J channis Frem an

,

Joh . Moscbet, Johannis Lokyere , Rica rdi a tte D ich, e t Jch . D eighe . Q U I dicunt

quod Thom a s Talbot, cler icus , defunctus, nont enu it a liqua , terra s seutenem enta,

indom inico suo , ut de feodo, de dom ino rege incapite , nee de aliis, in com ita tu

pra dicto, die m o ob iit . S ED dicunt quod idem Thom a s tenuit ad term inum vitasua ,

die quo obiit, nuper conjunc t im feoffa tus cum Johanne de Carreue t JohanneLaundels, defunc tis, ex d im is s ione Rica rdi T albo t m ilit is , defunc ti, de ha r edita te

Gilber ti T albot, filII pra dic ti Rica rdi, adhuc super s tit is , m aner ium de Bam pton,

cum per tinentiis ineodem com ita tude dom ino rege incapite, per servitium uniusfeodi m ilitis , de licent ia dom ini regis per cha r tam suam . IN Q U O qu idem m aner io

sunt diversa edific ia , qua nihil valent per annum ultra r eprisa s dom orum . EST

ibidem unum ga rdinum , quod vale t per annum I I solidos, e t unum colum bare

quod vale t per annum I I solido s . S UNT ibidem tres caruc a ta terr a , continentesinse CXCVI a cr a s , unde dua pa rtes po ssunt quolibet anno sem inari, e t va le ta c ra , quando sem ina tur , per annum IV dena rios, et ter tia par s nihil vale t, quiaj a cet ad Warectum ,

et in c om m uni,et ibidem LX a cr a pra t i separa lis, a festo

Purifica tionis bea ta Ma ria usque fa num inde leva tum , et postea in com m uni,

e t va let a cra XI I dena r ios per annum , e t unum m olendinum aqua ticum, quod

va le t per annum XX solidos, et ibidem qua dam pastura s epa ra lis , a fes toAnnuncia t ionis bea ta Maria usque fes tum Sanc ti Micha lis , qua valet per idemt em pus XII I solidos , IV denar ios ; e t pos tea nihil valet , quia j a ce t in conIm unie t ibidem quidam reditus gallorum et gallina rum voca tus Churshet

, qui va let perannum VI solidos , VI I I dena rios , solvendos ad festum Sancti Martini ; e t ib idemqu idam reditus XL solidorum voca tus Candelm a ssyeve solvendus ad fes tum Pu

r ifica tionis bea ta Mar ia ,et ibidem quidam r editus V solidorum

, voca tus he rtpeny, solvendus ad festum Pentecoste s . ET sunt ibidem diver si tenentes quo rumr editus e t servitia va lent pe r annum XXVI libra s I I solidos, s olvendi inde ad fes tumSanc ti Thom a A po s toli LXXI s olidi, ad festum Annuncia tionis Bea ta Ma ria IVlibra , XI I I solidi, IV dena rii, ad fes tum na talis bea ti J ohannis Baptis ta VI libra ,

XVI I denarii, et ad fes tum Sancti M icha lis , XI libra , VI I I denar ii. ET visusfranci plegii ibidem , ad term in0 s de H ockeda)

T e t Sancti Micha lis,va let C Solidos .

ET pla c ita et perquis ita hundredi, halm o ta , tolneti, et m erca t i ibidem va lent perannum XXXI I I solidos , IV denar ios . ET dicunt quod revers io dicti m anerII deBam pton specta t ad pra fa tum Gilbertum Ta lbo t, filium et ha redem pra fa ti

Rica rdi Talbot defunc ti, adhuc superstitem ,e t ha redes suos ; qui quidem Gil

ber tus e s t a ta tis XXVI I I annorum et am plius . ET dicunt quod pra dic tus Thom a s obiit X IVO die O ctobris ultim o pra terito, e t quod dic tus Gilbertus, filius e t

ha res pra fa ti RicardiTalbot,filii et ha redis Gilberti Talbot, fra tris pra dicti Thom a

A PPEND I X, NO X I I I . I

defuncti, es t ha res ejusdem Thom a propinquior , et plena a ta tis ,ut pra dictum es t .

IN cujus rei tes tim onium , pra dic ti j ura ti hu ic Inquis itioni sigilla sua apposuerunt .

Da ta loco, die, e t anno , supradictis .

XII I . INQU IS IT ION O F THE 4 i a O F EDW. III, MAY 1 6 AND

O CT . 5,A . D . 1 3 6 7 .

Am ong the Record s inthe Cus tody of the Master of the Rolls , pursuant to Sta t . 1 and 2 V ict . , cap.

94, and preserved inthe Tower of London, to wit , Inquis it ionot' the 4 l st year of the reignof K ing Edward the Th ird , ( 2nd nrs ) No 1 , it i s thus conta ined

EDWA R DU S , D ei gra tia Rex Anglia , dom inus H ibernia e t A quitania,d ilec to

s i b i Johanni de Evesham ,Esca e tor i suo in com ita tu O xonia ,

Salutem . PRE C IP IM U S tzbi quod , per sa c ram entum proborum e t legalium hom inum de balliva

[

tua , per quos r ei ver itas m elius s eiri po ter it, diligenter inquira s , s i s it ad dam

num vel pra judic ium no s trum aut a liorum s i concedam us Edm undo de Elford,quod ipse quinque m es suagia et qua tuo r v irga ta s terra , cum pertinentiis , in

A s tone, j ux ta Ba m pton, et Lewe , qua de Rober to de Elford, qui illa de nobistenuit in cap ite

,ut dic itur , e idem Edm undo ad v itam suam adquisivit, licentia

nostra super hoe non Obtenta , retine re pos s it et habere , ad to tum vitam suamde nob is e t ha redibus nos tris , per servitia inde deb ita et consueta , necne : et

s i s it ad dam num vel pra judicium nos trum , aut a liorum , tunc ad quod dam num ,

e t quod pra judic ium nos trum , e t ad quod dam num , e t quod pra judic ium alio

rum,et quorum , e t qualiter , e t quo m odo . ET

, s i m essuagia e t terra pra dic ta ,

teneant ur de nobis in cap ite , ut pra dic tum es t, an de a lio ; e t s i de nobis, tuncper quod servit ium ,

e t qua liter, e t quo m odo ; e t s i de a lio,tunc de quo, vel de

quibus,e t per quod servitium , e t qualiter , e t quo m odo , et quantum m essuagia

e t terr a pra dic ta valeant per annum ,in om nibus ex itibus , juxta verum valorem

eorundem . ET s i qua terra e t tenem enta eidem Edm undo rem aneant,ultra

m essuagia et terr a m pra dic ta , tune qua terra et qua tenem ents,et ubi, e t de

quo, vel do qu ibus teneantur , u trum v idelice t de nobis, ande alio,e t s i de nobis ,

tune per quod servitium , e t qualiter, e t quo m odo ; et s i de a lio , tune de quo,vel de quibus , et per quod servitium , e t qualiter, e t quo m odo, et quantum va

leant per annum inom nibus ex itibus . ET Inquis itionem , inde distincte e t aper tefa ctam ,

nobis , in Cancella riam Nostra in, sub sigillo tuo et s igillis corum per

quos fa cta fuerit, s ine dila tione m ittas, et ho c breve .

Tes te m e ipso apud Westm ona ster ium , XVI die M an, anno regni nostri quadragesim o prim e . F O LKYNGH .

IN Q U I S IT IO fa cta apud Wy tteneye, in com ita tu O xonia ,quinto die O c tobris ,

anno regni Regis Edwardi Ter tii post Conques tum quadragesim o prim e , coranI

Johanne de Evesham , Escaetore dom ini regis in com ita tu pra dic to, v ir tute

H ISTORY O F B AMPTON,

brev is dic ti dom ini regis e idem es c a e tori direc t i,

e t pra sent ibus consuti, per

s a cram entum Johannis de S toke s, Thom a Go s tard,W illielm i Haddon

,Thom a

Ba tyn, Henrici Torpheray , W illielm i Som enour , Johannis Pece,Johannis

Greyndere , Johannis F rem an, IVillielm i Cok , J ohannis N el, e t Thom a Ta illour ,onera torum et jura torum super a r ticulis , in dicto brevi contentis . Q U I D IC UN

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,

per sa cram entum suum , quod nones t ad dam num nee pra judic ium dom ini regisseualiorum , licet dom inus rex conceda t Edm undo de Eleford, quod ipse qu inquem essuagia e t qua tuor virga ta s terra cum per tinentiis , in A s tone, j ux ta Bam pton,e t Lewe, qua de Roberto de Eleford qui illa de dom ino r ege tenuit in c ap ite

,

e idem Edm undo, ad vitam suam adquis ivit, l icentia dom ini r egis super hoe nonObtenta , retinere pos s it et habere, ad totem vitam suam , de dom ino rege et ha redibus suis, per servitia inde debita et c onsueta . ET dicunt quod dic ta , tr ia m es

suagia et tres v irga t a t erra , cum per tinentiis de pra dictis quinque m es suagiis

IV virga tis terra sunt in A s tone , j uxta Bam pton, et tenentur de dom inor ege incap ite , per se rvitium , ad inveniendum unum hom inem , cum areu e t s agitt is , per quadraginta dies , inexercitusuo , inAnglia , e t Wallia , tem pore guerr

sum ptibus suis prop riis . ET dicunt quod dic ta I I m essuagia e t I I I v irga ta ter

ra valent per annum , inom nibus exit ibus suis, XXX solidos . ET dicunt, quodduo m essuagia e t una virga ta terra sunt inLewe e t tenentur de dom ino rege inc apite, per serv itium ad por tandum unum falconem lanea rium dom ini reg is . E r

dicunt qu od dic ta m essuagia et terra‘

inLewe valent per annum ,in om nibus

ex itibus, jux ta verum valorem eorundem I I I solidos IV denar ios .

ITEM dicunt quod rem anea t eidem Edm undo,ultra m es suagia e t terra inpra

dicta , unum m es suagium et dim idia virga ta terra , cum pertinent iis , inEle

ford, qua tenentur de Johanne Grey m ilite , ut de m aner io suo de H erdwyk ,

per servitium annui red itus I I solidorum . Et dicunt quod dicta m essuagia e t

terra valent per annum,ultIa repr isa s , I I solidos . IT EM dicunt, quod dictus

Edm undus tenet unam virga tam e t dim idiam terr a a rabilis, cum per tinentiis , in

villa de Stanlak e, qua tenentur de feodo Aum a rle, per servitium m ilitare . ET

quod dicta terra valent per annum inom nibus ex itibus,j uxta verum va lorem

e orundem ,VI solidos, VI I I denarios .

IN cujus r ei testim onium s igilla pra dic torum jura torum pra sentibus sunt appensa .

Da ta loco, die, e t anno supradictis .

XIV. EXTRACT FROM HENRY VIII ’

S GRANT O F THE LANDSO F ENSHAM A BBEY TO EDWARD NO RTH .

A . D . 1 543 .

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1 his grant is printed entire , together w ith the value of a ll the lands m ent ioned there in, in Dugda l e’

s

Monast iconAnglicanum , Vol . 1 1 1 , p . 2 7 , from MS . Cotton. Nero C ix , fol. 1 58 .

R EX O MN IB U S & c . S e IAT Is quod nos , inconsidera tione ver i, fidelis , et a cceptab ilis s er vitii dilec ti S ervientis nos tr i Edw a rdi N or the m ilitis

, thesaura rii cur ia

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Rivuli subterranei, a t Heddington, Shottover Forest .Water-works a t Enghton, and Hanwell.

EARTH S , SAN DS, CLAYS , & c .

Bitum inous Earths or Peats a t BurtonLetham, Tham e, Cowley .

Earth for Fuller ’

s use,S tanton-Harcourt .

A sorte of m arle a t Merton.

Earth for Potter ’

s us e (but not very good) a t Marsh Balden and NunehamCourtney .

Toba cco Pipe Clay a t Shottover Forest.An anony m ous very white Earth like crude Alaba sters, at Wynton.

Which- ear th, a t Tham e, Wa terperry ,‘

A dwell.

Gypsum na tivum (ut puto) Plinii, a t M ilton, Gr ea t Teu, Stansfield.

Analum inous Earth, a t Ducklington.

S tone-yellow and Clay-

yellow oker, a t Shottover Fores t .A coarser sort of yellow oker a t Gars ington.

Another yellow oker , a t Ducklington.

Clay m ixt with a shining Grit, a t Ham pton-Gay .

A course dark Um ber, a t Bladen.

A light and finer,Um ber a t Wa terperry .

A white fine Sand, a t Finstork .

A sor t of Sand, sold by Reta ils a t 20 sh : per Bushel, a t Kingham .

Good Coal, but the bedds not above 4 or 5 inches thicke a t Kidlington.

Lignum fossile, a t Ducklington, Wooton.

Dam ps of the earth very m ortal], a t North Leigh .

A considerable‘

prospect from Hill, a m ile North East of Wynton, where 1 0

m erca t-towns m ay be seenina clea r day .

Cave inthe earth, called A inket-hole, .nea r Cornbury .

ST O N ES .

Free Stones, a t Com bury-Pa rk, Heddington, Wynton.

Slap- stones for m ounds, B radwelle .

Slat- stone, for covering Houses , Stansfield.

Best fire-and wea ther -stone at Wyntonand H orneton.

Grave stones, Ibid .

Ragg—stones at Cha ileton.

B aggit, a t Whitefield, Stoke Talm age .

M arble, a t Bleckington.

M ill stones for the O il Mills, Ibid.

The GoldenPyrites, a t Cleydon; Silver at Clifton.

A sorte of Iron- stone, a t Tham e .

F luores, spars, inallm ost every quarry .

Lapis (ut puto) calam inar is, a t Fyfi eld.

A sort of Iron- stone , a t Tham e .

Globuli coloris ferr ei, ponderosi,— laeves, granula ti, a t Cornwell.Lapis Sardii, a t Dorchester,Lithoxylurn, Nuneham Courtney .

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Transparent pebles, at Kidlington.

FO RMED ST O N ES .

To ye likenes of Cockles, Glym pton,Wynton Oysters, O xford : Muscles, A lkerto

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ri .

A steria , a t Claydon, Swerfond.

A s troites a t Heddingt on, Steeple-Burton.

O phiom orphites , a t Sandford, Cuddesden, Tham e .

Cochleom orphites a t A dderbury , Langley .

O streom orphite s , a t Shottover fores t .

H ippocephaloides , a t Heddington.

S chelites , a t Shottover .

Dyorchis, a t Shottover .

Triorchis, Ibid .

Buchardites reticula ti, a t Shetford.

Buchardites costa ti, a t Bridge—Norton.

Cornu A m m onis, O xon.

O tites, Heddington, Som m erton.

Echinites prim i A ldrovandi, a t Cowley .

Echinites m agni Aldrovandi, a t Tangley, Fulbrook, Burford .

Lapis Juda icus faem ineus , a t Heddington.

S ta lagm ites,a t Tham e, Kirkelington.

Pisolithes, a t Rey-brooke .

Fungites, a t Heddington.

Lapides , inquibusaves effigia tae, a t Wardington.

Lapis Mam illar is, a t Lewkner .

Belem nites , colore cinereo, Deddingt on; czf ruleo, Grea t Rowlright .Lapis a cetabulum referens, a t Lewkner .

O ssa hum ana petrifica ta , a t Cornwell.

S ilex m argam continens , Lewkner .

Lap is specular ia, Rhom boides, a t Heddington.

S tone sealed like a Sigle, found intho m iddle of a block of coal, a t Cornwell.

O phthalm ites , a t O xon.

Lapidis Lyncurii spec ies, a t S t. Clem ent’

s .

Tns s s AND PL ANTS, N O T KNOWN BEFO RE A T THE PHYS lC-G A RDEN .

A Hawthorn, with white Berrys , a t Bam pton.

A sort of Elm e,wi th very narrow leaves , a t Hanwell.

The hundred Porm d peare, a t S tanlake .

The peare of Paradise, a t La tchford .

— Bo th these bear twice per Annum .

Helleborine angus ti-folior m ontana, flore nonnihil candicante, a t Lewkner .

Triticum caule rubro, a t Sydenham .

M ixt Lam m as Whea t, a t Crowell.Tri ticum bispica tum : Hordeum hixsicatum a t Fulbrooke .

Hordeum praecox, at Gaunt-house inNorth-m oore .

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O THER TREES AND P LAN T S, N O T O RD I NA RY, F O U ND IN THE

CO U NT Y O F OXO N .

A grea t spreading O ake, from bough ’

s end to bough ’

s end 1 0 8 feet, incircum fe

rence 3 24, a t Rycot.

Another O ake, from bough ’

s end to bough ’

s end 8 1 feet, in circum ference243 , a t Nuneham Cour tney .

A grea t old Elm e, inMagdalenCollege Grove, barked quite round for m anyyears , yet lives .

AnO ake, tha t foretels the birth of the next beire, and dea th of the presentpossessor , of B icot, inthe Pa rk .

Fraxinus e leganter contorta, a t B isseten.

O ther A sh tre es rem arkable intheir growth , Ibid .

UNU S UA L GRA I NS S OW N E IN OXF O RDSH IRE.

1 . Carthanus, or Ba sta rd-Sa ffron, com m only called the SCAR LET-FLOWER, a t

Nor th-A shton.

2 . Ray-Gra ss sowne wi th good success, about Kidlington and Islip .

3 . Ditto, a good im provem ent of light stone brush-land, a t S teeple-Bartonet

alibi.4 . Ca rraways, sowne with good success, about Bam pton and Clanfield, that

one pound of theis equalls two from Londoninvalue.

A N IMA L S , W ITri TH I NGS O N U S UA L [U N U S UA L] ATTEN D I NG THEM .

Ludovicus’

s Bees, a t C . C . C ., O xon.

A water-insect, bred withina stone, called a s tone-caddi, at Cornwell.

Upupa , the whooping bird, a t Forrest-Hill, Ca s sington.

No Snakes ever s eeninO xfordshir e, Nor th ofWoodstock.

A white Linne t, a t Deddington.

A sort of Chub, peculiar to the river Evenlode, exceeding, at lea st equallingthe Pearch andTench in goodness, a t ShiptonUnder Whichwood.

Fossile Beles , a t Eynsham .

F resh-wa ter Muscles, m uch bigger than the sea ones, a t Shottover Forest,Bradw ell, StantonSt. John

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s .

A H og, alm ost 1 3 hands high,a t Upper Tadm erton.

A m onstrous Greyhound, begottenbetweenanIrishGreyhound and anEnglishM a stiff, a t Sir Tim othy Tyrrel ’s .

Three horses, each a t lea s t 40 year s old,a t A shton Rowant, Sherborn, Soul

dern.

A wom anof 60 years old brought to bed of a son, both now living at Shetford.

Richard Clifford, late of Rollcot the o ldest m an I have yet heard of ih'

thiscounty, viz. 1 14 years old.

Mr . Evans, Rector of Hea th, had a s tone grow under his tongue tha t alm ost de

prived him of his speech, which he drew forth with his owhe hand.

AnArgum ent this that the clim ate is cold , dam p , and barren.

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Ancient ways,Akem annStret going through Fritwell, and the Portway throughSoldern.

The Fosse—way, yet to be seennear Bradwell Grove .

Pavim entum Pzenicum s ive ,Mosaicum — A saraton Grse corum — LithOstrOton

Plinii . -ploughed up a t Grea t-Tew.

Rowl-right Stones .

The grea t S tones inStantonHarcourt field .

The vaults and pa ssages under ground a t Woods tock and Bloxham .

The font of Sa int Edward a t Kiddington.

Anarrow or dar t of anantique form e, plowedup a t S teeple-Barton.

A Stone, found inSir Thom as Spencer ’s Garden, with China or Runic chara cters .

Anancient im age of bra ss of Our Saviour, plowed up a t Ham pton-Gay .

Anancient Vane takenup a t Wendlebury .

Ancient Rom anand English m oney a t A stonRowant, Wynton, Burford, StrattonAudley, Swerford, Chipping Nor ton.

INQUIS IT ION CONCERN ING RO BERT VEYSEY’

S REQ UEST TO

FOUND BAMPTON GRAMMAR- SCHO O L, JAN . 1 2, 1 63 7 .

O xoN . An inquisition indented taken a t the ( ity of O xon the 1 2 th day of

J anuary inthe 1 3 th year of the reignof our sovereignlord Charles by the gra ceof God king of England, S cotland, France and Ireland

,Defender of the

fa ith , & c .

BEF O RE Richard Bayley D . D ., vicech ancellor of the University of O xon,

Henry Southam Esq. ,m ayor of the c ity of O xford, John Prideaux, D . D .

,

Richard Z ouche, doctor of law, chancellor to the bishop of O xford, and JohnWhistler, esq. , by virtue of his m aj esty ’s com m ission under the grea t sea l ofEngland, to them and other s d irected to enquir e for the due execution of thes ta tute m ade inthe parliam ent holdena t Westm inster the 2 7th day of

,O ctober,

in the 43 rd year of our la te sovere ign lady Q ueenElizabeth, entitled an A ctto redress the m isem ploym ent of lands, goods and s tock of m oney heretoforegiven to char itable uses, by the oa ths of Thom as Speede, Anthony Edwa rds ,William Warland, Richard Willim ott, Nichola s Redhead, Edward West,

JohnCollens, William Spencer, Thom a s May, Robert Wheeler, Richard Farr, Jam es

Ya tes and Robert Nichola s, good and lawful m enof the county aforesa id . Whosay upon their oa th s tha t Rober t Veysey the elder, la te of Chim ney

, in thecounty of O xon, gent ., decea s ed, by his la st will and testam ent, bea ring da tethe first day of July, in the 1 1 th year of the reign of our Sovereignlord kingCharles tha t now is, am ongs t other things did publish and decla re his will to be

,

and did thereby give and bequea th, to and for the freeschool to be founded anderec ted inBam pton, the sum of 1 00 for and towa rds the building thereof witha shleane worke, and did also give

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£ 2 00 m ore to be disposed a s his executors ,Mr . William Hodges, M r . JohnPalm er, and three Others of the Sufficients m enin

APPENDIX, No xvr.

Bam ptonthould think fit concerning the sam e school with som e pro tra ture a t

the upper end of the s am e . And the said Rober t Veysey, by the sam e w ill, did

m ake, nom ina te and appoint his nephew William Veysey of Bam pton in the

county of O xon, clothier, his full andwhole executor of tha t his last will and testam ent, only Inhope, trust, and confidence for the true paym ent of all his debts andlega c ies and to be a ccountable thereof to his overseer s m onthly, a s by the saidlast w ill and testam ent appeareth . And the sa id jurors further say tha t the s a idRobert Veysey a fterw ards, tha t is to s ay the 1 1 th day of July , inthe yea r of our

Lord God 1 63 5 , died leaving sufficient a ssets to pay all his debts and lega cies .

And the sa id William Veysey did take uponhim the burdenof the sa id executorship ,and proved his sa id will Indue form of law . And tha t the said 3 00

, or any pa rtthereof, sithence the dea th of the sa id Robert Veysey, ha th not been em ployedor pa id by the said W illiam Veysey the executor, a s by the sa id will the sam e is

lim ited and appointed to be em ployed and paid .

O XO N . O rders and decrees m ade a t the c ity of O xon in the county of O xonthe 1 2 th day of Jan. inthe 1 3 th year of the reignof our sovereign lord Cha rles,by the grace of God king of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender ofthe fa ith, & c . By Rich . Bayley D . D . , v icechancellor of the University ofO xon,

Henry Southam Esq. m ayor of the city of O xon, JohnPrideaux , D . D ,,Richard

Z ouche, Doctor of Law, Chancellor to the bishop of O xford, JohnWhis tler esq.

by virtue of his m aj esty’

s com m iss ionunder the grea t s eal of England, bea ringdate the 23 rd day ofMarch inthe 1 2 th year of the reign of our sover eign lordCharles to them and others directed for the executionof the s ta tute m ade in the

high court of parliam ent holdena t Westm inster the 2 7 th day of O ctober in the

43 rd yea r of the re ignof our la te sovereignlady Queen Elizabeth , intituled an“ A ct to redress the m is em ploym ent of land, goods and s tock of m oney git en to

charitable uses and as concerning the £ 3 0 0 given by the la te will and testa

m ent of Robert Veysey towards the erecting and endowing of a free- s chool inBam ptonthe said com m issioners do order , adjudge and decree tha t William Veysey the executor of the said Robert shall forthwith pay into the hands of JohnPalm er of Bam pton a foresa id the said 3 00 wi th interest thereof from the

t im e of the decea s e of the S aid Robert Veysey a fter the ra te of 5 inthe hundredfrom the tim e of decease of the sa id Robert , until the S a id m oney shall be pa idto be em ployed toward the erecting and endowing of a free- school in suchm anner as by the said will is directed .

And they do further order '

and decree tha tWilliam Hodges ofBam ptonaforesa idclerk, William Veysey, JohnPalm er

, Edwad Carter , Thom a s Willear, and Will.Hancks , or the m ajor part of them , and inc ase there shall be equality of voices,thenthat part, onwhich the sa id Willia m Veysey shall give his voice or suffrage,shall have the pla c ing and electionof the firs t school-m a s ter there, and that thes chool-m as ter of the Sa id school Shall from tim e to tim e be elected chosen and

visited and uponj us t cause am oved by the three vicars of the sa id parish for thet im e being and the heir of the said Robert Vey sey or the m aj or part of them tha tshall be present afte r Sufficient warning of such v isita tion, new electionor nom ina tionand incase there shall be difference, inopinioninsuch their visita tion,nom i

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nation,elec tion or am oval of any schoolm a s ter

, then tha t opinion or suffrageshall be followed, unto whi ch the m ajor part of them sha ll give the ir voices . Andinca se there shall be equality of voices, thenthat part or side

,unto which the

heir of the s a id Robert Veysey shall give his voice or suffrage, shall be takenand’

pursued. And do further order and decree tha t the lands tha t shall be purcha sedfor the endowm ent and mainta inance of the schoolm aster there shall be purcha sed Inthe nam e of William Veysey the executor, Sir Thom as Whord

,knight

,

William Hodges, Robert Vey sey the younger, John Palm er , Henry Medhopp,

R ich . Keene, Henry Coxeter, Thom a s Willier, William Hanks, William Wise,and John Trinder . And that a s Oftena s all the said feoffees shall be dead,except four surviving feoffees then thos e feoffees shall convey the sa id landss o purcha sed for the Sa id school and o ther endowm ents of the sa id school umto eight or m ore of the m ost substantial persons of the said parish to be no

m ina ted and elec ted insuch sort , m anner or form a s the sa id schoolm a ster is

a ppointed to be elected, so tha t those tha t shall be of the nam e of the sa id

Robert Veysey be chiefly preferred in that nom ina tion.

XV I I . GRANT FROM TRUSTEES FO R THE SALE OF CHURCHLANDS TO Ma s . JANE HANCKS , O F A MO IETY O F BAMPTON

DEANERY IN OXFORDSHIRE.

SEPT UAGES IMA O CTAVA PAR S C LA U S . Anno Dom ini 1 650 .

THIS INDENTURE m ade the nine and twentieth dayWO LLA STON M IL . of Septem ber , inthe yeare of our Lord God, a ccordingET HANCKS to the com puta tionof the Church of England

,one thou

1 4 sand six hundred and fiftie, BETWEEN Sir JohnWolla ston Knight, Robert Titchborne, Thom a s Noell,

Ma rke Hildesley, Stephen Estwicke, William Hobson, Thom a s A rnold, O wen

Roe, George Langham ,John Stone, John White, William Wyberd, Daniell

Taylor, William Rolfe and Rowland Wilson, esquires , being by two severall

A c ts of this present Pa rliam ent, the one intituled “ AnA ct of the Com m ons

of England in Parliam ent a ssem bled for the abolishing ofDeanes, Deanes andChapters, Cannons ,‘Prebends, and other offices and ty tles of or belonging to anyC a thedral] or Collegia te-Chur ch or Chappell within England and Wales,

and the other intituled “ An A ct with further instructions to the Trustees,

Contra ctors, Treasurers and Registers for the sale of the lands and possessionsof the la te Deans, Sub-deans , Deanes and Chapters, & c . and for the betterand m ore speedy execution of the form er A cts, O rdinances and Instructionsm ade concerning the sam e persons tru sted for the convey ing of such of the

lands and possessions of the sa id la te Deanes, Deanes and Chapters, Canons,Prebends , and other persons nam ed in the said A cts, a s by the sam e A cts

respectively are vested and settled in the said Trustees and theire beire s insuch sort a s inthe said A cts respectively is m entioned, of the one part, and

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pa tiou of JohnSidwell, his a ssignee or a ssignes and all tha t cottage or tenem entw ith the appurtenances, s itua te lying and being in Bam pton aforesaid

, now or

la te inthe t enur e or occupa tionofWalter Ca stle, his a ssignee or assigns, and all

tha t other cottage or tenem ent there w ith the appurtenances, now or la te in thetenure or occupa tionof Robert Jones, his a ssignee or a ss ignes

, and all tha t otherc ottage or tenem ent there w ith the appur tenances

,now or la te in the tenure or

occupa tionof JohnCarter, his a ssignee or a ssigns , And all tha t other cottage or

tenem ent there w ith the appur tenances, now or la te inthe tenure o r occupa tiono f Robert Wright, his assignee o r a ss igns And all tha t cottage or tenem ent therew ith the appur tenances, now or la te in the tenure or occupa tion of WilliamEdwards, his assignee or a ssigns . And all tha t o ther cottage or tenem entthere w ith the appur tenances, now or la te in the tenure or occupa tion of Anthony Crom well, his as signee or a ssigns, and a ll tha t other cottage or tenem ent there w ith the appur tenances, now or la te in the tenure or occupa tionof John Clerke, his a s signee or a ssigns . And all tha t o ther cottage or tenem entthere w ith the appurtenances , now or la te inthe tenure or occupa tiono f Edwa rdB lagrave, his assignee or as signs and all tha t other cottage or tenem ent there withthe appurtenances, now or la te inthe tenure or occupa tionof Richard Blagrave,his a s signee or a s signs, and all tha t m es suage or tenem ent with the appurtenancesand all tha t gardenand one yard land thereunto belonging

,with the appurten

auces, ly ing and being inBam p tona foresa id, andnow or la te in the tenure or

occupa t ionof JohnSydwell, his a ssignee or a ssigns, and a ll tha t o ther m essuageor tenem ent there, with the appurtenances , and one quarter of a yard land thereunto belonging, w ith the appurtenances, now or la te in the tenure or occupa tionof Richard H eysey, his as signee or a s signs, and all tha t other m essuage or tenem ent w ith the appurtenances and one orchard and cur tilage thereunto belongingw ith the appurtenances conteyning by e stim a tion one a cre and an halfe,m o re or less , and all tha t close of pa sture—gr ound, with the appur tenances,com m only called the Close behind the house, conteyning by es tim a tiontwo a cres

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m ore or less, and a ll those three yard-lands, w ith their and every of their eppurtenances, conteyning by estim a tion5 0 acres , m ore or less, belonging to the sa idm es suage or tenem ent

,lying and be ing inBam ptona for esa id, now or la te inthe

tenure or occupa tionof the said Jane H anckes, her a ssignee or a ssigns . And all

tha t m essuage or tenem ent with the appurtenances, and also two yard lands and

one halfe yard land w ith the appur tenances thereunto belonging,ly ing and being

inA stonand Cotefeld w ithinthe sa id m anor of Bam pton, and now or la te inthe

tenure or occupa tionof Thom psonH anckes, his a ss ignee or a s signs, and all tha to ther m essuage or tenem ent wi th the appur tenances and a ll tha t ya rd landand anhalfe thereunto belonging, w ith the appurtenances, ly ing and being inChim ney w ithin the sa id m anor of Bam pton, new or la te inthe tenure or occu

pa tionof Edm und Martin, his as signee or a ssigns , and all tha t o ther m essuage ortenem ent with the appurtenances , and one qua rter of a yard land t hereunto belonging

,with the appurtenances, lying and being in Cannee ld [Clanfield]

within the s a id m anor of Bam pton, and now or la te inthe tenure or occupa tionof Sim on Dyer, his a ss ignee or as ss ignes, and all tha t other m es suage or tene

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m ent w ith the appurtenances , and one yard land thereunto belonging w ith theappurtenances, lying and being inA stonand Cotefield a foresa id, and now or la te

in the tenure or occupa tionof JohnPrior, his a s s ignee ar a ss ignes and a ll tha tcotta ge or tenem ent w ith the appurtenances situa te, lying and being inB am pton a foresaid, and now or la te in the t . or o . of Edward Slade, his a s signeeor a ssigns, and a ll thos e three cott ages with their and every of their appur

tenances s itua te and being near the Vica rage of Bam pton a foresa id, la te in

the t . or 0 . of Rous Clapton, his a . or a . and all tha t cottage or tenem ent

w ith the appurtenances, s itua te and being in Bam pton a fores a id, now or la te

in the t . or o . of Richard Pe ttifeir, his a ss ignee or as signs, and all tha t othercottage or tenem ent with the appurtenances s itua te and being in Bam ptona foresaid

,nowe or la te in the t . or o . of Rober t Carpenter , his as signee or

as signs, and all tha t o ther c ottage or tenem ent, w ith the appur tenances, s itua te

and being in A ston and Cotefield a foresa id, or one of them ,and one halfe

yard land thereunto belonging and appurta ining w ith the appur tenancesnow or la te in the t . or o . of John Clerke , his a . or a . and all tha t othercottage or tenem ent there with the appurtenances now or la te in the t . or o .

of Richard Moore, his a . or a . and all h ouses , edifices , s tructures , buildings ,ba rns, stables, outhouses, orchards , ga rdens, yards, curtilages, court -yards,ba ck-s ides , lands arable and not a rable, m eadows , lea sowes , pa s tures, feedings,com m ons, and com m on of pa sture, woods, underwoods , tim ber- trees and othert rees, ways, pa s sages , ea sem ents

,wa ters, wa ter

- courses , profi ts , com m odities,advantages, and appurtenances wha tsoever to the several m es suages o r tenem ents

lands and prem ises abovem ent ioned, and to every or any of them or any par tor parcel of them , or any of them belonging or in any w ise apperta ining

,a ll

wh ich sa id prem ises a re pa rcel of the m anor of Bam pton a foresa id and also

the m oiety of the s a id m anor of Bam p ton, and of all and s ingula r m es suages, cot

tages , lands , tenem ents , m eadows, lea sowes , pastures, feed ings , com m ons,grounds

used for com m on, was tes and was te grounds thereunto belonging, other thanand

except the lands, tenem ents and heredit am ents hereinafter m entioned to be

excepted .

A N D the s aid S ir JohnWollas ton, [& c . a s before] in fur ther execution of the

s a id powers and trusts, and by the sa id wa rrant, and for the considera tion a foresa id, have granted, a liened, barga ined, and sold, and by these presents dogrant, alien, barga inand sell unto the sa id Jane H anckes , her heirs and a ssignsthe m oiety of a ll Courts Baron, services , franchises , cus tom es

, cus tomwork s, forfeitures, eschea ts , reliefs , heriots, fines, issues, am erciam ents

,fines upon

descent or aliena tion, perquisites and profits of the sa id court, rivers , stream s, wa

ters,wa ter- cours es , fishing, hawking, hunting, fowling , wa ifs, estrays , deodands ,

treasure-trove, goods and cha ttels of felons and fugitives,felons of them selves,

outlawed and condem ned persons , clerks convic ted, and ofpersons put inexigents,

rights, royalties , jurisdic tions, liberties, privileges, im m unities, profits , com m odi

ties, advanta ges, rents, reversions , em olum ents, pos sessions and hereditam entswha ts oever to the said m anor of Bam pton, incident , belonging, or in anywiseapperta ining, and which the late Deanand Chapter of the la te Ca thedral Church

34 H I STORY O F BA MPTON,

o f St . Peter in Exon or any their predecessors inr ight of the la te Deanery O fExon, or any o ther per s onor pers ons cla im ing by

,from ,

or under them or any of

them their or any of their es ta tes a t any tim e w ith inthe spa ce of ten year s nextbefore the beginning of this present parliam ent o r sithence had held used occu

pied or enj oyed with inthe sa id m anor which sa id prem ises a re m ent ioned in the

par ticular ther eof to ha ve beenla te parcel of the possessions of the la te DeanandChapter of the sa id la te Ca thedral-church of Sa int Pe ter inExoninthe County ofDevon, and to have beentogether wi th the residue of the s a id m anor ofB am pton,by indenture hea ring da te the 1 2 th day of June inthe 1 7 th yea r of the r eign of

the la te king Charles dem ised by the la te Deanand Chapter of the sa id la te Ca~

thedral-church of S a int Peter inExonunto Rober t Veysey gentlem an,and Jane

Henekes, for the term of one and twenty yea rs from the day of the da te thereof,under the yearly r ent O f 1 6 . 6 s . 2d. ,

the propor t ionable par t ofwhich sa id rent

for the prem ises hereby granted is inthe s a id pa rticular m entioned to be 56 9 . 6 3 .

2d. ,a s by the s a id par ticula r , wher ein the sam e prem ises her eby granted a re

m ent ioned to be upon im provem ent of the yea rly va lue of four s core and e ightpounds tenshillings and eleven pence, over and above the sa id propordonahlepar t of the sa id yearly r ent res erved appears and the revers ionandreversions

, rem a in

der and rem a inders of the sa id m oiety or halfendeale of the sa id m anor ,m essuages ortenem ents ,lands and prem ises and of every pa rt and pa r cel thereof, excep t and a l

w ays r eserved out of this present barga in, sale and conveyance all pa rsonages appropria te, t ithes appropr ia ted, fee-farm rents

, issuing out of tithes, obla tions , oh

ventions , portions of tithe s , parsonages , vicarages , churches, chapels , advowsons ,donatives , nom ina tions , r ights of pa tronage and presenta tion and also except a l ltha t Court-leet and view of frankpledge , of and belonging to or usually heldw ith inthe m anor aforesaid and all fines, issues , am erciam ents

,profits, perquisites ,

com m odities, advantages , em olum ents, and appur tenances there to incident or belonging or inany wise apperta ining, and which the la te Deanand Chapter of the

s aid la te Ca thedral- church of S t . Peter in Exon, or any their predecessors in

r ight of the la te Deanery of Exon or any other person or persons, cla im ing byfrom or under them or any of them ,

their or any of th eir e s ta tes, a t any tim e

within the space of ten ye ars next before the beginning of this present parliam ent or s ithence had h eld u sed occupied or enjoyed a s belonging or apperata ining to the sa id c our t-leet and view of frankpledge and a lso except all lands,tenem ents, and hereditam ents now or la te parcel of the m anor a foresaid, and nowor la te inthe t . or O . of Robert Veysey esquire, his a . or a . by v irtue of a deed of

par ti tionm ade betweenthe sa id Jane H anckes and the said Rober t Veysey, bea ring da te the 20 th day ofM ay inthe two and twentieth year of the r eign of the

la te king Charles, and all such other things , a s inand by the s a id a ct s or eitherof them are saved or excepted or appointed to be s aved, or excepted, or not

to be sold .

TO HAVE AND TO HO LD the sa id m oiety or halfendeale , of the s a idm anor, m essuages, lands , tenem ent s

,and hereditam ents , and all and s ingula r other

the prem ises hereby granted, aliened, barga ined or sold, or hereinbefore m ention

ed to be hereby granted, aliened, barga ined or sold, with their and every of their

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36 m arrow or BAMPTON,

under the great seal of England, to them and others directed, that William Hod

ges , then of Bam pton a for esa id, clerk , William Veysey, JohnPalm er, EdwardCarter, Thom a s W illier and William H ancks, or the m ajor part of them and incase there should be equality of voices, thenthat part, onwhich the sa id WilliamVeysey should give his voice or suffrage, should h ave the pla cing and electionof

the first school-m aster there : a s .inand by the sa id decree, am ongst o ther th ings

,

m ore a t large appeareth : sithence which, the said JohnPalm er and Edward Ca rt er a re decea sed : now know ye tha t the s a id William Hodges, William Veysey,Thom as Willier, and W illiam Haucks, the surviving elec tors of the firs t s choolm a s ter of the sa id free- school, have elec ted pla ced and appoint ed, and hereby doelect, place and appoint William Ja cksonof Cha rlbury inthe sa id county of O xon,M . A . first schoolm a ster of and inthe sa id school, according to and in pur suance ofthe sa id decree, he the sa id school-m as ter observing such rules and s ta tutes a s arem ade by the feoffee s of the sa id school onhis part to be done .

Inwitness whereo f we have hereunto put our hands and seals the l oth day of

O ctober inthe year of our Lord 1 65 3 . Wm . Hodges . Rob. Veysey, perWm .

Veysey, executor, as above is written, Thom as Willear, Wm . H anckes .

X IX . INQU IS IT IONS TAKEN AT BAMPTON, A . D . 1 680 .

O xon sa uce r m om entous indented takena t Bam pton, on Friday the 3oth

day ofApril, inthe two and thirtieth yea r of the reignof our SovereignLd. Charlesye I I, by the gra ce of God K ing of England, Sco tland, France and Ireland

,De

fender of the Faith, & c . , Annoque Dom ini 1 6 80 . And from then adjourned toye e ight and twentieth day ofMay thennext following, before Henry A lworthD r. inLaw,

Robert Perrot, Thom as H erd, John Gower, JohnGunne Esq. and

Richard Dew Gentlem en.

By vir tue of ye King ’

s m aj esty’

s com m issionissuing out of H is m aj es ty’

s highand honorable court of Chancery hearing da te a t Westm ins ter ye seventeenthday of February inthe two and thirt ieth year of his now m aj esty

’

s Reignt othem and others directed for the inquiring of the m isem ploym ent of Lands,Tenem ents and Hereditam ents

,goods, Cha ttels, and stocks of m oney heretofore

given to charitable us es a ccording to the sta tutes m ade in the three and thirt ieth

_year of the Reign of the late QueenElizabeth in tha t cas e m ade and

provided by the oa ths of Daniel Warwick of Kelm scott, JohnWilliam s, JohnWilliam s Jnu. , Edward Ricketts , William Faulkner, Phillip Turner ,William Tur

ner, N icholas Cons table, William Bryan, Peter a te, JohnTrem a ine, Rober tS tevens, A lexander M ay , William Cas tle, JohnClarke and JohnTaylor, good andlawful m enof the sa id County who being returned im pannelled elected and sworn

ac cording to the said s ta tute and com m ission do say upon their oa ths a s

followeth ;BAMPTO N .

— Firs t they present and say upon their oa ths tha t JohnPalm er

late of Weald in the par . of,Bam p tonin the County of O xonGent , de ceas ed

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did by his last will and tes tam ent hea ring da te the three and twentieth day of

O c tobe r inthe year of our Lord 1 650 , give to the use ofthe poor, w ithinthe townships of Bam ptonand Weald only, the sum of 1 00 to be disposed of am ong thesa id poor by Bartholom ew Coxeter Gent ., JohnTrinder , Robert Right, and William Collingwood of Ba m ptona fore sa id, Yeom enor the survivors or survivor of

them . And they do fur ther present and say tha t the sa id JohnPalm er som e shorttim e a fter the m aking of his sa id w ill died, uponwhose dea th the said 1 00 was

pa id and cam e to the hands of the said Ba rtholom ew Coxeter who deta ined the

sam e about the spa ce of five years and pa id no part of the said m oney or the

interes t thereof to or for the use of the poor of Bam ptonand Weald according tothe sa id la s t will of the sa id JohnPalm er, uponwhich by virtue of a com m ission

of cha ri table us es direc ted to several gentlem encom m issioners for the said coun

ty the s a id com m iss ioners ordered the sa id Bartholom ew Coxeter to pay the 1 00

and the interes t thereo f thendue and in a rrears unto the sa id John Trinder,wh ich wa s a ccordingly pa id . And they do fu rther present and say upontheiro a th s tha t the sa id sum of£ 1 00 and also the sum of£ 2 8 being the interest m oneyof the sa id £ 1 00 , is now in the hands and possession of the s a id JohnTrinderand they do further s ay tha t the sa id Ba rtholom ew Coxeter, Robert Right, William Collingwood are s ince the m aking of the sa id will dead and that the said JohnTrinder is the only surviving Tr ustee.

ITEM they do further present and say upon their oa ths tha t Richard Bla o

grove la te of B am p toninthe sa id county of O xon Yeom an decea sed did after

he had m ade his la st will and te s tam ent inwriting decla re uponhis dea th-bed hisintentionto have givento the use of the poor of Bam pton a foresaid and Weald

,

the sum of 1 0 in the presence of Joan his wife and executrix of his sa id will,and they do further present tha t the sa id Joanhis executrix voluntar ily declaredthe s am e and de s ired tha t the sa id 1 0 m ight be by her pa id into the hands ofthe Church-wardens and overs eers of the poor of Bam pton and Weald to be bythem d isposed o f and pla ced out a t interes t for the use of the poo r of Bam ptonand Wea ld for ever but withal did decla re her intentiontha t it should be to suchuses inbread or otherwise for the sa id poor and to such of them during her life a sshe should nom ina te d irect or a ppoint.ITEM they do further present and say upontheir oa ths tha t Robert Dale la te

o f Wea ld in the parish of Bam pton in the county of O xon. gent ., deceaseddid

, by his la s t will and testam ent under his hand and seal, hea ring da te the l oth

day of Augus t in the yea r of our Lord 1 65 8 , give and bequea th unto the

poor of A s tonand Coa te, inthe sa id county of O xonfive pounds to rem a ininhisexecutrix ’s hands and she to pay six shillings for the use of it every yearso long a s she should live and a fte rwards to be put into the hands of som e hones ttru s tees to rem a infor ever pay ing to the po or of A stonand Coa te wha t benefi tthe m oney would bring yearly for the use of it

,and they do further present tha t

the executrix is s ince dead, and tha t uponher de a th the sa id sum of five poundsc am e to the hands and custody of Thom a s Dale her executor who ha th Ye sa idfive pounds inhis hands .

ITEM they do further present and say, uponthe ir oa ths, tha t Edward Cotten,

3 8 H ISTORY or BAMPTON,

late of Silvertonclerk deceased, did by his la st will and testam ent, hearing

date thel 6 th day of Decem ber , anno Dom ini 1 6 74 and a fterwa rds proved indue fo rm of

law , the 2 7 th day of May , in the year of our Lord 1 676 , give unto the poorhouse lodgers of Bam ptonand Weald the sum of fifty pounds, his will being tha tit should be put out ongood security by ye overseers and churchwardens of ye

s a id par ish and the interes t thereof pa id to such pa r ishioners a s are not chargeable to the parish , and who duly frequent their church

, and receive there the HolySa cram ent of the Lord ’

s supper and to such persons ofhones t religiouslives a s m ay encourage industry and p ie ty provided always tha t no one haveles s thanha lf a crown and no one m or e thantenshillings

, the m oney to be disposed of by and w ith the consent of the three vicars and to such pers ons a s theyshall appoint, r eposing such confidence inthem tha t they will not by par tia litym ispla ce his char ity or dispose ofwha t he gave, t o ea se y e pa rish thereby of tha trelief which is due from them to the poor, and they do fur ther present and sayupontheir oa ths tha t JohnCo ttenofBo sca stle in the county of Cornwall, esquire ,did

,the sa id 2 1 s t day ofMay , in ye year of our Lord 1 6 76 , prove the sa id will

and tes tam ent and took uponhim y e burdenther eof and possessed him self of thegoods and cha ttels of the s a id Edwa rd Co ttendecea sed to the va lue O f f. 1 1 49 . 8 5 .

and tha t ever s ince the proba te of the s aid w ill the s a id John Cotten ha thdeta ined ye sa id sum of 5 0 , w ith the interest ther eof inhis hands .

ITEM they do fur ther pres ent and s ay, upontheir oa ths, tha t Dr . William O s

borne decea sed by h is w ill did give a hundred pounds to ye use of ye poor of

Bam p tona foresa id to be bestowed inbinding out of apprentices a s it should seemgood to any two of ye vicars to be together with Mr . JohnPa lm er there

and they do further find th a t ye s a id sum of

£ 1 0 0 is new m the hands and custody of S tephen Phillips D r . of Divinityone of the vica rs of Bam p ton, together with twenty pounds there m ade and

ra ised out of the interes t ther eof.A lso ye sa id day of adj ournm ent, videlicet ye 28 th day of M ay, anno Dom i

ni 1 6 8 Q , and from thence adjourned to y e 7 th day of June thennext following, before us , H . A lworth, D r . inlaw,

Th. H erd, Rob. Perrott, and J . Gunn, esqs ., and

Richard Dewe , gent . , com m issioners by vir tue of the s tatute and com m issionbe forem entioned . The Jurors a foresa id, upontheir oa ths, present and say tha t ye sum

of 1 0,w ith ye interest thereof,now inye hands of J ohnCollingwood andEdith

Sheppa rd, a s executors to W illiam Collingwood m entioned intheir bonds hearingda te y e la s t day of O ctober , anno Dom ini 1 65 6 , and tha t ye sum of 1 0 withye interes t ther eof, now in the hands of Henry Cooke and S im on Collingwood m entioned ia their bond, hearing da te ye 1 8 th day of A pril, AnnoD om ini 1 6 74 , and tha t ye sum of £ 20 , with ye interest thereof, now in y e

hands of H enry A llenand JohnBennett ye younger m entioned in their bonds ,bearing da te ye 1 1 th day ef A pril

,anno Dom ini 1 6 75 and tha t ye sum of 1 0 ,

with ye interes t thereof, now iny e hands of Rober t Sidwell and John S idwell,executor s of EllenSidw ell his m other deceased m entioned intheir bond bearingda te ye 2 2nd day of O ctober , inye year 0 1

"

our Lord 1 6 73 and tha t ye sum of

£ 70 , w ith y e interest thereof, now 11 1 ye hands of Powdrell Hurst and John

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Gower esquire, and Ye sum of 5 0 , with Ye interest thereof, to be

in the hands of William Nabbs and John Nabbs and the sum of 20 ,

with the interest thereof, to be in the hands of William Greene, be by thes everal persons be for e-m entioned forthwith paid into the hands of S tephenPhillips Docto r inDivinity ,A rthur Rury Doctor inDivinity, andThom a s Snell Clerk,the present vica rs of the parish-church of Bam ptonand their succes sors, Thom as

Herd e squire, JohnGower esquire, Robert Maye tt of Fawlor gent ., Richard D ewthe elder of Bam p ton, gent . , Robert Veisey of Tantongent., Thom as Trem ayne

the younger gent . , Richard Lissett, JohnNa bbs and William Young, whom we

nom ina te and appoint trustees for the receiving thereof and the s a id trustees or

the m aj or part of them to dispo se and lay out the sam e inlands and tenem ents of

fee- sim ple, and tha t the said trus tees or the m ajor pa r t of them do contra ct and

a gr ee with the pa rty or pa rties of whom the said lands and tenem ents shall or

m ay be bought and purcha sed to convey by the a dvice of Counsel learned in the

Law such lands and tenem ents so to be purchased unto the sa id tru stees and theirheirs upontrust and confidence, tha t the sa id trustees shall pay and dispose theclear yearly value of Ye sa id lands and tenem ents so to be purchased to thes choolm as ter belonging to the sa id par ish of Bam ptonfor the tim e being and his

successor s, and w ith a covenant or proviso inthe sa id deed of purcha seshall think fit that so soon as eight of the before-m entioned trustees are or

shall be dead, ye surviving trus tees shall enfeoff and convey to twelve other trustees

and their heirs , the vica rs of Ba m ptonfor the tim e being to be three of the

sa id trus tees upon and under the sam e trust, covenants, and prov isoes con

ta ined in the sa id c onveyance, and in like m anner a fter the dea th of e ighttrus tees the sur vivors shall enfeoff and convey to twelve other s , and theirheirs, the v icars of Bam pton for the tim e being to be three of the trustee s

uponand under like trust, covenants and provisoes before-m entioned, and so after

the dea th of eight of the trustees the survivors to enfeoff and convey to twelveothers the vicars of Ba m ptonfor the tim e being to be three of the sa id trus tees, tocontinue the said trust and so the sa id trus t in like m anner to be continuedfor ever .

A t the day of adj ournm ent tha t is to say the28 th day ofMay, anno D om ini

1 680 , we the com m iss ioners a foresa id do far ther order, adjudge and decree thatthe sa id s tore of groundm entioned inthe inqus itiento belong to the free school of

B am ptenbe observed and livered of the bodies of the sa id Mr . Richard Dew,

inthe inquisitionm entioned a s the Richard D ew, and of the parishi

oner s of the parish of Bam pton.

AT the day ofadjournm ent, tha t is to say the 28 th day ofMay anno D om ini

1 6 80 we the com m issioners a foresa id do farther order, adjudge and decree by and

with y e consent of J ehnTr inder inthe inquisit ionm entioned tha t for the better se ttling and continng of y e sum of 1 20 m entioned inye inquisitionto be inye hands’of ye s a id JohnTrinder tha t he ye said J . Trinder do w ithinsix days next ensuing,a fter notice of the sa id decree, give security by bond for the sa id sum of 1 20

new inhis hands, unto Richard Lissett, JohnNabbs, William Young, Thom a s

Trem a ine, Thom a s Burdock, J ehnCarter the elder,

APPENDIX, NO xx . 41

Thom as H all, all of Bam pton aforesaid, Ri chard Wright, William Sadler of

Weald yeom en, whom we nom ina te and appoint trustees for the receivingthereof and the said trustees or the m aj or part of them to dispose and lay

out the sam e in lands and tenem ents of fee-sim ple, and tha t the said tru stees or the m ajor part of them do contra ct and agree wi th the party or

parties, of whom the said lands or tenem ents shall or m ay be bought and

purchased, to convey, by the advice of counsel learned inthe law, such landsand tenem ents so to be purchased, unto the said trustees and their heir s ,upon tr us t and confidence tha t the sai d trustees sha ll pay and dispose the

clea r yearlyvalue of the sa id lands and tenem ents so to be purchas ed to the

poor of Bam pton and Weald, and not one person or fam ily to have above

five shillings a t a tim e and with a covenant or proviso in the sa id deeds of

purchase, as counsel shall think fit, that so soon and so often as s ix of the

before-m entioned trustees are or shall be dead, the surviving trustees shall enfeoffand convey to nine other trus tees and their heirs , upon and under the liketrusts covenants and provi sos before-m entioned. And after the dea th of six trustees the survivors te enfeoff and convey tonine others to continue the sa id trust

to be in like m anner tr ansferred from tim e to tim e for ever

And tha t out a t interes t by the sa id trustees until such purcha sebe had . disposed of to the poor as a foresaid And tha t the a cquittance or sa id trus tees or the m ajor part of them shall be a good

dis cha rge to the sa id purposes .

InW ITNES S whereof a s well the said com m issioners, as the sa id trustees

have s et their hands and seals the 7 th day of June, anno Dom ini 1 6 81 .

Trem ayne March the 1 8 th, 1 68 1 . RB CD . , then and before, seventeenpounds , nineteen shillings and eleven pence in full of the

charges and expenses for carrying on and m anaging of thisbus iness in full, by m e, THO . TREMAYNE.

XX . HUDSON '

S PAMPHLET ON THE CHARIT IES O F BAMPTONAND WEA LD, ( reprinted from the edi t ionof

[l i tle page.)A brief statement of the several charitable gifts and donations for the

benefit of the poor of Bamptonand Weald, W inpa rticula r directionsfrom ine rents and profi ts ar e to be applied According to tire severa l

Deeds,Wills , and Decrees .

To which is added Anaccount of tire Lands appropria ted for the useof Repairingthe Church Interspersedwitli rem a rks and observa tions .

God 18 a spirit °

us t and wise , H e sees with piercing si ht,H ow dare we t enthe poor despise, And keep from t em their right.

Robnot the pee r, beca use of their everty, but ity andhave m ercy onthem . Se x.

BAMPTO N, OXON ; Printed y W. He eway, for the late Mr. Hudson.

1 801 . And reprinted at reques t , Dec. 30th 1 814. (Price Sixpence.)

42 H ISTORY O F BA MPTON,

[Page 2 ] TO THE READER .

A s m ost Authors say som ething indefence of the work s they publish , it m a y probably be ex

pe cted that I should give m y rea sons for com piling the follow ing m em orandum s .

Suffice it then to say , th at m y principal des ignwa s , to re scue from ob livion, the rights of the

peer to the several charitable Dona tions ; in the prosecutionof wh ich subj ect I have been actuat ed by th e purest m otives , T ha t of Benevolence to m y fellow crea tures in the lower order : ofsoc iety. F or having a long t im e obs erved w ith concern, the num berles s abus es and m is -m anagem ent tha t too frequently a t tend the dis tribut ion of char itable Dona t ions ingenera l , but m ore pa rt icularly those belonging to our ownpoor I was induced to co llect and publish , from the bes t and m os tauthentic inform a tion I pos s ible could procure , an account of a ll the existing charit ies , with thequant ity and rent s of the s everal Esta tes etc . H ow far I have succeeded in the a ttem pt I shallleave to be t ter judges thanm yself to determ ine .I hope how ever, that the work im perfect as it is , w ill m eet the approbat ion of the candid , andbe a m eans of s tim ulat ing the new T rus tee s , a s w ell as the old Churchwardens , to a fa ithful discharge of the ir duty in this im portant affair . B y s ettling their ac count s annua lly, and leaving theBook s open for public Inspect ion, then, and not ’

t ill then, m ay we expec t to hear of no m ore

com plaining inour S tree ts . and A lehouses , of the abus e and m is-applicat ion of the pe or’

s m oneyas i t is ca ll

’

d , but on the contra ry, a ll would be peace harm ony and concord . Tha t this in futurem ay be the case , Is the S incere w ish ofyour Hum ble S ervant R . H UD S O N. Bam pton, May 1 5th , 180 1 .

[Page CHARITIES, &c .

THOMPseN’s G I FT .

Heavenha th m y soul, inpurest j oy and bliss,

Earth ha th m y ear th where body toem ed is,

Poor have m y store , for ever to their use ;Friends have m y nam e to keep w ithout abuse,H ea ven, Ea rth, Poor, Fr iends of m e have a ll their pa rt,And th is inlife wa s chiefe s t j oy of hear t .

GEORGE THOMPSON Esq . who died inthe year by his will gaveto the poor Of B a mp ton, Wea ld, and Lew,

Sir Pounds a your for ever .

cba iy’

d upona bouse and lands a t B rim -Norton,

in the occupationOf

F rancis Hull,and Ch arles Gillett which sum is di rected to be distribu

ted ia the Soul/i P orcb,by the Chur ch Wardens and Overseers

,on

Whi tsunday, and St . Thomas the Apostle, by equal portions B ut no

p a rt of Mir Cbnrily bus beendistributed onlV/i ilsunduy, inlbe m em ory ofMe writer of ili is work.

WILMOT’ s G IFT .

LEONARD WILMOT of Clanfield Gent,who died inthe year 1 60 8, gave

to the poor of BamptonandWeald, forty shillings a year for ever chargeduponanestate at Clanfield, called [P . 4] Cbest -MonF a rm ,

new intheoccupationofMr. Pope which sum is directed by his will to be distributedby the Church-wardens to the most industrious poor

,onGood Friday in

every year . But shameful to relate, not a shilling of it has beengiventothe poor ’ till withinthese five or six years past, a lthough it has beenregularly received by the Church-wardens . This I assert as a real fact

, as I

was the only personat a vestry who remonstrated against the mis -applicationof thi s char ity, as well as some of the other gifts .*

APPLETON ESTATE .

JOHN,a lias JULIANWA LTER ofAppleteninthe county of Berks, Gent ,

T radit ionsays tha t this Gentlem aninthe form er part of h i s life wa s a m enia l servant , inwhich capac ity he lived about 20 year s insevera l different parishes inth e Count ies of O xford and Berks , to the poorof whi ch , h e bequea thed anannual donat ionof a s m any pounds as he continued to liveyea rs ineach pla ce .

To Bam ptonhe gave two pounds , to C lanfield three pounds , to Burferd and Witney fourpound s each .

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closed arable land, with a quantity of meadow ground adjoining to the River Isis,now inthe occupationof Thomas Bunce, the rents of which aredirected t o be appropriated for the apprenticing poor Children to somegood trades inLondonor the suburbs thereof [and not else w/iere] asthe Trustees or the major part of them shall think fit

, and as far as therents and profits will extend . ThisE state it seems was purchased bysubscription, inor about the year 1 706, and the Trustees first appointedwere the Vicars of Bamp tonfor the time being, Mrs . Mary Crofts andher heirs, andMr . Richard Coxeter and his heirs . Present rent 24 poundsper annum .

[P. 8] WIDows ESTATE

MR . EDWARD CHURCH who died in the year 1 7 7 1 , gave anEstate which is situated inWeald, and knownby the name Of SonesLands

,of the value of fourteenpounds per annum . Intrust

,to apply

the rents and profits thereof to six poor widows of Weald,to be nomina

ted yearly at Easter by four of the most substantial inhabitants of Bamp s

tonandWeald which said charity for several years after the death Of theDonor was applied as his will directed . But he having neglected tocomply with the Statute of the 9th, G . 2 . chap : 86 commonly calledthe Statute of Mortmain,§ his heir at Law, claim ed the Estate as hisRIGHT and property ; and the parish of Bampton judging it useless tolitigate the matter left tMr . Church’ s heir intheuninterrupted enjoyment[if it m ay be s o called,] of what the letter of the law furnish’dhim with .

[P . 9] Having thus takena view of the several Charity Estates, andgivena particular account how the rents and profits of the same are tobe applied,We shall next sta te the LEGACIES Which have beengivenfor the Poor

,and

the first tha t com es under considera tionis the Bequest ofMrs . MARY DEWE ; who by her will gave to the Vicars ofRamp

ton, her Sister Mrs . Jane Dewe, Thomas Trollope Brown, and C aseFrederick Esquires, the sum of two hundred pounds In trust

,to be

applied by them,their Executors or Administrators

,inemploying the

poor in some manufactory, under such rules and regulations as theyshould think fit

, or should hereafter be established by parliament. ThisGentlewomandied inthe year 1 763 which is 3 8 years ago, andnotwi thstanding the great distance of time, but little has yet been done withthis sum , either for the benefit or employment of the poor . Strange sur

prising strange ! that no One GentlemaninBamptonwill exert himselfonthis occasion. The Rev. Mr . Hawkins inwhose hands the princi

Th is Sta tute enacts Tha t no Land or Tenem ents shal l be gi t enor cha rged with any char itableuse wha tsoever unles s by deed indented , and executed inthe pre sence of two w itnesses , twelve calender m onths before the death of the Donor, and enrolled inChancery six m onths after its execution.

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pal sum remains is [if I am im form ed a [P. 1 0] right] willing to giveit up whenever it canbe done with propriety and safety.

MRS . SNELL’

s LEGA CY .

This Lady was relict of the Rev. Thomas Snell, formerly one of theVicars of Bampton, who by her will gave to Edward Whitaker, iVilliamRoberts , and the Rev. Francis Smith, the sum of two hundred pounds ,Intrust, that they place it out upongood security, and annually distribute the interest thereof to the poor of Bampton. She died in

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MR . LEVERErT’

s LEGACY .

Thi s GENTLEMAN was formerly aneminent Surgeonat Witney who

by his will gave to JohnWright and Samuel Druce, the sum of fiftypounds

,due to him onthe security of the Tolls onthe Turnpike road

betweenBamptonandWitney In trust, that they permit hisreceive the interest thereof during her life, and after her decease to paythe same to the Church-wardens and Overseers of the poor of Bampton;to be by them laid out inbread and distributed at their discretionto thepoor

,m onthly or weekly for [P . 1 1 ] ever . 1] Not a shilling of the in

terest of this sum has beenreceived since the death of Mrs . Leverett,which happened inFeb ruary, 1 793 .

llfrs . Susanna F reder ick’

s Lega cyThis LADY who died inMay 1 789, gave by her will to the most dis

tressed labouring poor, the interest of two hundred pounds, due to heruponBond from Mrs . Leybournlate of VVestwell inthis County, datedinor about June 1 7 84, which sum if I am rightly informed, is directedto be laid out i nlinenand shoes

,and distributed as her Executor shall

think fit . But a s Mrs . Leybourn before her death became insolvent,the Charity intended becomes void of course . Mrs . Frederick has alsoby her will bequeathed the sum of one Guinea yearly, for a sermonto bepreached onGood Friday for ever . The subject to be on the m erits,death and passionof our blessed redeemer . And 15./m s m a c/ifor Lega cies .

We procead next to speak of the several Scnoors ,and their endow

ments, and first of the FREE SCHO O L which was founded by ROBERT VEYSEY ES Q U IRE, heretofore Of CH IMNEY in [P . thi s County and endowed by him and others in or about the year for the instruotion and education of all Boys that are fit to be taught Latin in thepari sh of Bampton, and its several Ham lets

,namely IVeald

, Lew,

Haddon, A ston, Coat, Chimney, Yelford , Shifford, and B rightham pton. But whether the mas ter is by the foundationRules and Ordersof the said School, obliged to teach a ll such Boys that shall be sent tohim free of expcnce, or whether he has not a right to demand som ething

5 He d ied Feb. i 5 th , 1 699 , and wa s interred a t Sh ifford .

46 H I STORY or BAMPTON,

for their educationis what I am at a loss to determine with precision.

I shall therefore only Observe farther,that the late REVEREND Mr .

M IDDLETON,who was Master of thi s School upwards of FIFTY years, de

m anded HA LF A CROWN for entrance and one Shilling per quarter foreach B oy placed onthe Foundation, and the Rev. Mr . Smith

,who suc .

ceeded him had FIVE Shillings entrance and FIVE Shillings per quarter,so that there seem s to be nothing fix’d or certainrespecting this matter

,

nor is the master’ s salary more permanent or settled thanthe terms seemto be for teaching . This depends intirely onthe rent of the [ P r l i l i hm a

Closes, which are now let at the enormous sum of fifty pounds ten shillings per annum, being more thandouble the former rents .But we pass onto observe that to thi s School i s annexed anEnglish

one,for the educationOf tenBoys inReading, Writing and A rithmetic,

which was endowed by Mrs . Mary Frederick, and her Sisters inthe year1 783 the Salary of which [if I am rightly inform

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d] is Sixteenpoundsper annum,

being the interest,arising from four hundred pounds stock

inthe four per cent Consols . And the late Mrs . Susanna Frederickhas, by her will, bequeathed the interest of two hundred pounds, newSouth Sea Annuities for the support Of the Sunday School at Bamptonfor ever . There is also another Charity School in this Town, for theinstructionof six Boys and six Girls

,inthe first rudiments Of Learning,

said to be endowed by Mrs . Mary Crofts ; who was Aunt to the lateFred rick’ s family. The Salary i s about five pounds per annum but

inwhat year or how long it is since this little School was first established,I have not as yet beenable to learn.

Thus have I given from the most authentic information, I possiblycould collect

,a particular accougt of all the existing Charities, that

have beengivenfor the use and benefit of the poor . We shall next proceed agreeably to our plan

,briefly to describe the several Estates given

for the repairs of the Church ; and the first that we shall mention 1 5

that occupied by Leonard Carter, which consists of a Close adjoining toClanfield Lane

,containing four acres

,six cow commons inWeald m ea

dow,and one acre of arable land lying in a place called moor furlong,

Present rent nine pounds per annum .

Secondly, Three acres of arable Land occupied byWilliam Townsend,two of which lie inWright’ s field

,in the furlong shooting towards

Bam -Ley, the other acre or rather two lands, are inmoor furlong, Present rent two Guineas a year .

Thirdly, Two acres or more properly four Lands inBamptonfield, onelying ineach field

,now occupied by JohnProbits, at the yearly rent of

one pound nine shillings . Fourthly, A Close Of pasture at Lew,srtuate

She d ied inO ctober, 1 7 19 .

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2 . That he be well qualified to teach the La tinand Gr eek tongues .

3 . Tha t there be Morning and Evening Prayers in a Godly Precom pos ’d set

form duly Observed .

4 . Tha t onWednesdays and Fridays and all Sa int’

s Days the S chool-m a ster

br ing or cause to be brought all his schola rs to Prayer s inthe Pa rish Chur ch, andsee tha t they be taught their ca techism s a ccording to the Fo rm of the church of

England, w ith som e proper explana tion of the sam e .

5 . Tha t the Hours of school be from 6 O'

c lock to 1 1 in the m orning, and

from 1 to 5 in the a fternoon a ll the sum m er tim e, Viz.— From Lady-day to

M ichaelm a s, and in winter from 8 O’

clock to eleven, in the Morning, and

from ] till 4 in the afternoon.

6 . Tha t all boy s fi t to be taught La tinof the parish of Bam pton,viz. B am

ton, Weald, Lew, Haddon, A ston, Coa te, Chim ney, Shifford, Bright-ham pton,and Yelford, be adm itted in the sa id s chool pay ing ea ch Of

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em to the Ma ster

2 shillings and s ixpence for entrance,and a fterwards quar terly, l shilling.

7 . If the School-m a s ter shall think fi t to tea ch English, such s cholars, so

taught shall pay 5 Sh illings entrance, and 5 shillings quarterly ; and shall beobliged to pa y for a whole quar ter, if they com e to school any partthereof.8 . Tha t the schoolm a ster cons tantly res ide in the town of Bam pton

, and incase he shall a ccept o f any preferm ent inconsis tent w ith such r esidence

,then

his pla ce Shall be ip so fa c to vo id, a s if he wa s na turally dead, and the

Vis itors Shall proceed to a new Election.

1 8 1 9 Rent of the S chool-closes , say 40 1 0 s . per annum .

School-hou se, Cottage, & c . 1 2 O

XXII . INSCRIPT IONS FROM BAMPTON CHURCH ANDCHURCH-YARD .

A INSLEY, Eliza W illiam , daugh ter O f William and Eliza A insley of Bengal ;died June 2 9,1 80 6 , aged 2 days .

A M PH LET T , Rev . D r . Joseph, m any yea r s vic ar O f Bam pton. Mary his w ifedr . of JohnA m sonO f Lees in the co . Of Ch ester, esq. This m onum ent w a s

erected by their niece Eliza Buckworth .

A N DREW S , Mary and Elizabeth , rim . of Charles and Elizabeth A . Mary d . O ct . 6,

1 76 9 , ininfancy, Eliz abe th (1. Dec . 1 , 1 79 1 , aged 1 7 .

Joseph , Esq. and Annhis w . H e d . D ec . 3 0, 1 806 she (1. Jan. 1 2 , 1 8 02 .

Joseph, jun. Esq. d . Ap. 22 . 1 8 28 .

John, s . ofWm . and Eliz abeth , d . Feb. 24 . 1 8 1 9 , aged 1 y . and 9 m .

Wm . s . O fWm . and Elizabeth,(1. O ct . 1 8 , 1 841 , aged 3 6 .

Charles, (1 . J an. 3 . 1 803 , aged 83 . EL IZ A BETH w . of Charles , d.

used to be repa ired by part of the Tim ber that grow ed onthe s a id Close and according to Mr . Frederick ’

s T able , a lease of these H ouse s and the Land be longing t o t he Church , wa s m ade in the

year 16 72 by the thenFeoffees . To which m ay be added fi ve cow c om m ons inLew hea th , and aLand in Lew field , s a id to be pa rt and parcel of th is Esta te , which Com m ons 85 Land have beenin the posse ss ion of the H ank s ’s Fam ily, m ore th anha lf a Century.

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A pril 1 8 , 1 805 , aged 3 9 . RO BERT , sonof Ch . and Elizabe th , d . F eb. 1 1 , 1 841 ,

aged 64 . RUT H his w ife , died A pril 1 7 , 1 846 , aged 6 1 . MA RY-A NN their dr .

died D ec . 23 , 1 845 , aged 1 9 .

A N DREW S Jos eph, (1. Aug. 2 , 1 842 , aged 3 1 .

A NGEL L, Jane w . of John, d . O ct . 3 , 1 8 1 8 , aged 41 . also two of their children,William died O c t . 1 9 , 1 8 1 8 , aged 6 . Sa rah died O ct . 2 1 , 1 8 1 8 , aged 4 .

Elizabeth w . of John, died N ov . 1 , 1 83 6 , aged 5 7 .

A RN AT T , Jona than, of Lew,died Jan. 2 1

,1 799 , aged 6 1 . EL IZ A BETH A . wife of

Jon. A . died A pril 1 8 , 1 7 79 , aged 3 8 . EL IZ A BET H s econd w ife of Jon. A ., d .

N ov. 2 2 . 1 83 3 , aged 9 0 . also 3 infant ch ildrenof the above . a lso Joseph A .,

O f Lew,d . A pril 22 , 1 8 34, aged 47 . J O NA T H A N A .

, of Law, died Dec . 20 ,

1 844, aged 6 3 .

BAKER,William ,

(1 . A pril 26 , 1 83 6 , aged 89 .

Martha , w . of Thom as B .,d . Feb. 23 , 1 8 3 7 , a ed 34 .

Kind angels gua rd m y sleeping dus t, T ill Chris t shall com e to ra ise the ju st ;Thenm ay I wake insweet surprize, And inm y Saviour ’ s im age r ise .

H annah w . ofWiliiam ,d . M ay 5 , 1 824 aged 65 .

Cha rles Henry , sonof Cha rles and Ma ry B ., d . M ay 1 0 , 1 83 8 , aged 1 1

m onths . a lso Fanny their dr . , ( 1. O c t . 1 1 , 1 840 , aged 1 yea r 9 m onths .

BAN T ING, Jam es , (1 . Nov. 8 , 1 8 22 , aged 73 . Martha his w ife d . N ov. 27, 1 830 ,aged 8 1 .

BA RKER,R A . M . Obi It Feb. 27 , 1 778 , aged 35 .

BA RT LETT , John, sonof R ichard and M a ry , (1 . A prilMary w . of Richa rd B . (1 . Ma 7 , 1 729 , aged 45 .

BA RT LETT , Thom a s and Ann iiis w . , he (1 . F eb. 1 2, 1 7 79 , aged 7 1 she diedAug. 20 , 1 75 9 .

Thom a s , died June 1 0 , 1 8 13 , aged 7 1 .

Loving, beloved , inall rela tions true,Exposed to follies , but subdued by fewReader, reflect and co y, if youcan,The socia l virtues of tlii s honest m an.

Ann, w ife of Thom a s Ba rtlett, (1. Jan. 1 4, 1 83 6 , aged 85 also

Sarah dr . of Thom a s and AnnBartlett, d . Ma rch 1 8 ,1 8 1 2 , aged 3 0 .

John,of A s ton, died May 2 1 , 1 827 , aged 72 Ma ry his w. ,

d ied,Jan. 5 , 1 8 1 5 , aged 60 .

My life was burdens om e to m e,

T ill Chr is t m y God did set m e freeFrom a ll sorrow, gr ief and pa inWe trus t inChris t to rise aga in.

Em ily,V iolette , and Frances , daughters of Joseph and Elizabeth

B . Em . (1. Jan. 1 6 , 1 83 2 , aged 5 ; Viol. (1 . J an3 0,1 8 3 2 , aged 7 Frances, w .

of George Knapp, d . M ay 1 7 , 1 83 8, aged 24 . also children,died inin

fancyThom a s, (1 . Aug. 15 , 1 83 1 , aged 5 6 .

W illiam,(1. M arch 9 , 1 835 , aged 5 7 .

BA S TO N, William , d . June 3 0 , 1 77 1 , aged 6 7 .

Jona than, (1 . June 8 , 1 78 7 , aged 63 .

BAT EMA N,Edward, d . May 2 1 , 1 827 , aged 72 .

—

!Em m a , daughter of Johnand Mary , died Nov. 29, 1 827 aged 3 years

9 m ont 8 .

— Jam es John, son of Thom as H icks and Anna Maria Ba tem an,died

March 14, 1 83 8 , aged 4 m onths.

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BATES, M a ry .

Draw nea r to m e,m y ch ildren dea r ,

See wher e your m o ther lies :Clo se in the dus t unt il the day ,Our bodies shall a rise .

To a rt w ith you grea t grief i t wa s1\ ore

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Oys for to insue :I hope fbr m ercy a t tha t day ,And ther e to m eet w ith you.

BA TT S , Mary w ife ofWilliam , d . Dec . 1 1,1 834 , aged 72 .

Reader, live well, and fea r no suddencall,For soonor la te grim dea th w ill seiz e us a llA life well Spent w ill look dea th inthe fa ceMy gla ss is run, and th ine doth wa s te apace .

Elizabeth, w . of Richa rd, la te of Lew ,d . June 2 8 , 1 8 1 2 , aged

Shor t w a s the tim e I wa s a w ife, Before I did res ign m y life .

Unto m y blessed Sav iour ’s trus t, Hoping to r ise a inong the jus t.BENNET T , John, died Jan. 6,1 8 1 7 , aged 8 7 .

BI SH O P, Ann, (1. May 7 , 1 80 6 , ag. 93 .

Elizabeth, dr . of Richa rd and Ann, (1 . Jan. 5 , 173 5 , aged 4 1 .

BRA N DO N, Georgiana , died M ay 2 , 1 843 , aged 2 1 yea rs 8 m onths .

BRA S IER, Joseph , sonof Jo s eph and Ma ry B . , d ied D ec . 3 0 .

BREAK S P EA R, William , gentlem an,d . Aug. 23

,1 841 aged 63 .

BU LLEN,SusanDorothy , died Sept . 1 , 1 83 1 , aged 1 7 .

BU L LO C K , George , sonofWm . and Elizab. B . , d . M arch 1 9 , 1 83 6, ag. 4 yrs . 1 0 m s .

Here lies a child to pa rents dear, Christ called him hence his j oys to sha re ;We hope inHeavenwe shall him find

, Which heals the troubles of our m ind.

BUN CE, andMary, his w . , he (1. Sept . ag. 7 1 , she d . 1 73 1 , ag. 7 8 .

BURROW ,Rev. Thom a s

,3 8 years v ica r of Bam p ton, (1. J an. 3 0 , 1 83 7 , aged 7 1 .

BU S BY , Mary, w . of John, d . Aug. 1 6 , 1 800 , aged 5 0 .

CARPENTER, John, died D ec . 2 7 , 1 79 0 , aged 74 .

CA RR, Rev. Thom a s Willia m , B . A . ,la te schola r onJa ckson’ szfounda tiona t Mer

tonCollege . O xford, d. Ap. 1 9 , 1 83 7 , aged 2 7 . also Rev. George Ca rr, M . A .,

cura te O f Bla ck Bourton, O xon, d . June 5 , 1 840 , ag. 3 5 . Louisa C . died Sep. 23 ,1 8 40 , ag. 73 , 8: two SS . A lso Louisa C . organist Of this pan, (1. D ec . 1 8 44, ag .3 8 .

C ART ER, Ann, w . O f Leonard, d . Sep. 20 , 1 76 6 , ag. 63 . also 3 children, Elizabeth d .

May 6 , 1 746 , ag. 3 ; Edward (1 . Sep. 3 , 1 7 1 7 , ag. ] Ann(1. May 1 3 , 1 75 6 , ag.9 .

Leonard, died D ec, 2 7 , 1 772 , aged 5 9 .

Thom a s and Ann, 5 . and dr . of Leonard and Ma ry C . Anndied June 25 ,1 782 aged 12 y . ; Thos . d ied May 1 , 1 79 2 aged 8 .

M icha el, died Jan. 5 , 1 8 1 7 , aged 72 .

Leonard, d . Aug. 1 2 , 1 8 14, ag. 69 M a ry his w . d . Dec 1 0 , 1 82 0, ag. 80 .

Hannah , w ife of Joseph , died June 1 9 , 1 8 00 , aged 2 8 .

A loving wife, a friend m os t dear, A tender m other lieth hereA ffl ic tion

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s sore she with pa tience bore, Phisicians were inva inT ill dea th did seize, and God did pleas e, To ea se her of her pa in.

Though grea t m y lo ss, I hope w ith j oy Inheaven to m eet aga in.

M argaret,died N ov. 14

,1 8 23 , aged 6 6 .

A suddenchange, she ina m om ent fell,And. had no t t im e to bid her friends farewellThink nothin s trange/ tha t happens unto all,H er lot

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s to ay , tom orrow thine m ay fall.

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CO L L I N S , Susanna , w . of Sim on C ., died Aug. 3 1 , 1 78 7, aged 48 .

With pa tience to the Lord she did subm it,A nd m urm ured not a t wha t the Lord thought fi tShe with a Chr is tian courage did resignH er s oul to God a t his appointed tim e .

S im on, d . March 1 , 1 80 7 , aged 78 .

Dea r ch ildren a ll I pray agree, And serve the Lord and follow m e

Serve your God while you have brea th , There ’

s no repentance a fter dea th .

M a ry , daughter of S im onand Susanna , died A pril 4 ,1 804

, aged 1 4 .

While in th is world I did r em a in, My la tter end wa s grief and pa inBut whenthe Lord he though t it. best, He took m e to a pla c e of rest .

Thom a s , (1. D ec . 23,1 844 , aged 79 .

C O O KE, Thom a s , B . D . a r chd . of Salop . , rect . ofDrayton,

vic . of B am . ,d. Ap.

6 , 1 6 69 , ag. 73 . Elizab. Wia t , m other of Pr i s cilla w . ofTh. Cooke, d . May 1 6 ,1 66 8 , ag . 82 . [long La tininscrip t ion]

John, died F eb. 1 2 , 1 83 2 , aged 49 .

I f three s core ye a rs and tenwe s tay, ’

T is but a shadow pa s t aw ay,

But lands the sa ints w ith Chr ist above Inthe swee t sun-beam of his love .

C O PE LA N D , M a ry w ife ofW illiam C . d ied F eb. 26,1 80 7 , aged 73 .

C O RK,

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Richard, of Lew , died Jan. 2 8 , 1 7 1 8 . also h is wifeCR IP PS

,Mrs M icha el, ancient and wor thy c itizenof O x . d . N ov. 2 7 , 1 6 93 , ag. 78 .

Nea r to this pla ce enclosed I lie, A vic t im to m ortality ;My yea rs wer e m any , but a re pa s t, And h ither I am com e a t la st,To sleep indust , a des tined fa te Which s om e feel ea r ly, other s la teYour tim e

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s unc er ta in, but w ill c om e , And every m an’

s appo inted doom e .

Wherefore prepare to take gr ea t heede ; Ma rk well thy s teps , be good w ith speedeT rust to thy Saviour for thy ga in, And through him sha lt life Ob ta in.

Elizabeth,w . of JohnC .

,d . Aug. 26

,1 79 1 , ag. 25 . Susannah

,their dr .,

d . Sep. 5 , 1 704, aged 5 .

Ma ry w ife of Thom a s,d . July 1 9 , 1 8 1 9 , aged 23 - also 3 inf. child .

W ee no t for m e, m y husband dea r, Behold m y body sleepeth hereMy deb t is pa id, m y gra ve you see , Thensoonprepa r e to follow m e .

CRO FT , M rs Ma ry, a benefa ct or to this town, lies here .

CU RD , Mrs Sarah , (1. June 1 , 1 7 72 , aged 7 1 .

DEWE,Richa rd, Senr . second sonof Mr . Richard I) . la te of Abingdon, in the

county o f Berks , esqui re , died Sep. 1 4 , 1 6 84, aged 6 0 .

J ohn, Esq. & c . died Ap. 2 3 , 1 75 9 , aged 5 0 . m onum ent erec ted by hiss is ters J ane and M a ry Dewe . Anna Ma r ia his sister , died Aug. 1 9 , 1 75 3 .

Richard, and Jane his w .,he d . Ap. 5 , 1 7 28 , ag. 1 8 [La t ins ,]

DR I N KWA T ER, Ma rga re t, w . ofWilliam ,(1 . Feb. 1 3

,1 7 1 8 , aged 7 1 .

D U B BER,Ann, 1 7 75 .

D UT T O N , A nn, w ife of Richard D .,died N ov . 1 5 , 1 799 , aged 3 3 .

— also four chlldren, J ohn, d , J an. 4

,1 77 6 , ag. 1 8 m s . , Sa rah, d . Aug. 2 , 1 7 7 7 , ag. 8 days, Ma rga

ga ret, d . Feb. 1 8 , 1 7 89 , ag. 2 yr s . , Thom a s (1 . O c t . 4 , 1 794 , ag. 1 9 .

Richa rd, died June 1 0 , 1 8 1 3 , aged 6 7 .

Ca ther ine, d In. of Richa rd and Ann, died March 24, 1 80 6 , aged 2 1 .

EATON , Elizabe th , wife of Thom a s, d . ed O ct . 2 , 1 7 76 , ag. 43 .

My friends of m e a r e now bereft, And 1 w ithin this tom b am left .But no— Iny body is not I For I a m blessed in the sky .

Ann,daughter of Thom a s and Elizabeth, died May 1 , 1 789 , aged 23 .

Thom a s,died May 29 , 1 8 1 6 , aged 8 2 .

Long inthis world I did rem a in; My la tter end wa s grief and pa inBut whenthe Lord be thought it bes t, H e took m e to H is pla ce of rest .

EDMO N D S , J ohan. A . M ., hujus e ccl. Vica r .

,ob. 2 1 Ap. 1 743 , aeta t . sum 1 3 0 .

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ELDR IGE, Jo seph . died Feb. 2 8 , 1 80 9 , aged 72 .

FAWDERY,M icha el, (1 . Sep.

- 3 , 1 726 . Anne , w . of M . F . , and Jane, w . of

Richa rd Mahun, (1 . Jan. 1 7 , 1 740 , aged 6 0 . Mary F awdery , dr . of the

above Micha el F . Anne Mallam,d . D ec ag

FEL L , Leona rd . H ie reliquias ponuntur Leona rd Fell, infant is , qui Obnt 3 0nonarmn F eb. , MDCCVI .

Ser ins aut citius m e tam properam us ad unam .

F I S H ER, Hannah , dr . of Edwa rd and Ca tha r ine Sa rah Fisher , (1. Jan. 27 , 1 83 7,aged 2 6 . Edwa rd , their son, (1 . M ay 24, 1 8 3 8 , ag. 1 8 .

Ju st inm y you thful bloom ing yea r s , I left m y freuds with weep ing tea rs ,My t im e wa s short , I could no longer s tay, My dea r Redeem er called m e away,Thom a s , son of Edwa rd and Ca tha r ine Sarah F . , d . D ec . 23

, 1 840 ,

ag. 2 7 , leaving a w ife and two single ch ildren. LU C Y , daugh ter of Thom as

and Elizabe th F . , (1 . J an'

. 2 1 , 1 843 , ag. 3 yea rs 2 m onths .

F o x, M icha el, d . F eb. 1 , 1 70 1 , aged 22 .

M ary, dr . of J ohnF . and w ife of Thom a s Saunders , form erly butler of Tr inity Coll. , O x .

,d . Dec . 3 1 , 1 7 72 , aged 5 7 .

Franc is , (1 . Nov. 4, 1 79 2 , aged 7 0 . JohnF ox , (1 . 22 , 1 8 0 1 , ag. 83 .

M ary, w , of John, (1. J an. 7 , 1 79 7 , aged 3 9 y rs . J ohnFox (1.

Charlo tte , dr . ofThos andM aria F . o f A stoninth is p . d . Aug. 1 6 , 1 8 19 ,ag

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Fa rewell, m y friends, who loved m e so dear ;I’

m gone to res t : youhaveno cause to fea r .

My tim e wa s sho rt , 1 could no longer s tay,

‘M dea r Redeem er called m e aw ay .

John, late O f A ston, (1 . Au 7 , 1 8 23 .

A lov ing husband and a fa t er de ar , A fa ithful friend lies buried here .

— J am es , s onof J ohnand Hannah , la te of A s ton,d . June 6

,1 8 27 , ag. 34 .

My w ife and childrendea r,A s 1 have left behind

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B e prepa red to follow m e, And ~bea r m e inyour m ind .

Grea t sorrow it wa s to part w ith you, More j oy for to ensue,And w ith the jus t I hope to rise , And there to m eet w ith you.

Jos eph , gent . , d . Aug. 23,1 80 2 , aged 6 2 .

Richa rd, s onO fWilliam and Sa rah , (1 . Ma rch 1 5 , 1 82 1 , ag. 26 y ears .

From dust thou a rt ; to dus t m us t fall ; Think oft on this and onGod ca ll .

This life how shor t, how sure the gr ave, Make no dela y your soul to save .

Mary , dr. O f JohnandMa ry, d. D ec . ag. 3 2 . 3 s . and 1 dr . (1. infants .

John,(1. Ma r ch 2 1 , 1 84 1 , ag. 64 .

Ma ria , w . of Thos . . d . D ec . 2 7, 1 8 3 7 , ag . 65 .

A ll flesh is gr as s and turns to dust, Mo r tals are born to die ;Live w ell and put in Chris t your trust, And hope for endle s s j oy

— W illiam ,son O f Wm . and Sa rah, of Ducklington d . Sep. 2 7 ,

Chris t is m y life, though body die, My soul w ith Chris t lives j oyfully ,My life ’

s not los t ; refra inyour tears , My life ’s but hid till Christ appea rs .

John, sonofWilliam and Sa rah , of Claywell, (1. Jan. 1 1 , aged 42 .

A lingering illnes s did m e s eize , Which no Phy s ic iancould m e ea se,

A t length the Lord he thought it bes t To take m e to a pla ce of rest .

Rich a rd , ( 1. O c t . 2 1 , 1779 . Mary his w . , d . Nov 2 , 1 7 8 1 .

Mary, w idow , d . Ap. 15 , 1 79 3 , ag. 7 7. Ma ry , w . o fJoseph, (1. sam e day, ag. 5 1 .

Eliz abeth, d . F eb. 2 3 , 1 8 1 7 , aged 75 .

Sa rah w . ofW illiam ,(1 . June 24, 1 7 7 7 , a 3 8

F REDER I C , Doro thy , d . S ep. 1 4 , l 76 3 . l". (1 . J an. 1 763 . Ga scoygneF . Esq . , d . J an. 25 ,

1 78 0 . M rs . Ma ry F . d . A pril 20 , 1 786 .—Mr s . Su

sauna . F,(1 . M y 2 7 , 1 79 8 .

FRO ST , Ella , dr . of Sam uel and Jane, (1 . Ap. 9 , 1 799 , ag. 3 yrs . 7 m s . George

5 L H I STORY O F BAMPTON,

Fro s t, d . Nov . 2 1 , 1 840 , ag. 4 5 .

REVES , Rober t, d . M ay 2 1 , 1 7 03 . Anthony, (1 . N ov . 22

,1 7 1 2 , aged 87 .

GILL ET , Nora , died M ay 2 0,1 845

,aged 8 m onths .

G O DW I N , Richa rd, O f Lea chlade in Glos ter shire, la te s ervant to Doctor Fortescue, d . Ma rch 6 , 1 7 6 2 , ag. 5 7 .

G O WER , thr e e infants of J o hn Gow er Esquire and Anne h is W ife, nam elyAnne G . bur ied Mar ch 2 8 , 1 6 76 . William G . buried F eb. 1 4

,1 6 79 , and

M a ry G . buried MayG REEN,Berna rd, d ied A pril 1 5 , 1 8 1 1 , aged 74 .

— Berna rd Green junior, diedS ep. 25 , 1 82 7 , aged 6 2 .

G ROVE S , Elizabe th, dr . o f George and M a ry G. ,d . M ay 1 1

,1 80 6 , aged 23 .

Mary, w . o f G eorge G., d . Ma rch 1 2 , 1 779 , ag. 2 8 yrs

— Ann,and

Sa rah, their infant daughter s .

George , died July 2 2 , 1 799 , aged 5 6 — VVilliam , s onof George and

Ma ry G. , died June 7 , 1 794, ag. 1 8 .— Ma ry w . O f George G.

,d. M ay 29 , 1 793 ,

aged 4 1 . G eo rge , sonofGeorge and Ma ry G.,d . F eb. 1 9 , 1 8 1 6 , ag. 3 0 .

HA RRIS , Elinor, W . of J am es , (1 . Dec . 1 9 , 1 75 8 , ag. 43 .

Rob er t , la te of Coa te ,d . F eb. 2 8 , 1 793 , aged 5 4 .

Elizabe th , w . ofWilliam , ( la te of A ston) d . Aug. 20 , 1 79 1 .

M r s Sa r ah,la te of Coa te , d . D ec . 26

,1 842 , ag. 8 2 .

HAW K IN S W illiam , A . M . , of Whitchurch , Dorse tshire , and form erly Professor Of

poetry Inthe Univ . of O xford ; (1 . July 1 2 , 1 80 1 , ag. 7 9 .— als o William H aw

k ins M . A ., his son,

fellow of Pem b. Coll. O x .

,d . O c t. 1 2 , 1 8 0 1 , ag. 48 .

H AW TR EY , Rev. Cha s , v icar of two'

por tions of Bam pton, d . June 23 , 1 796 , ag. 6 3 .

HER BERT , Eleanor , died D ec . 2 1 , 1 8 1 0 , aged 8 2 .

H IGGI N S,William , ( 1. N ov . 1 9 , 1 843 , aged 5 0 . Annw ife of Edwa rd Hutton, dr .

of the la te Cha s . andMa ry H iggins O fH a tford, Berks , d . July 1 2 , 1 79 0 , ag. 5 9 .

H I L L , Doro thy, w . of Roger , bur ied the 1 8 of A pr il, 1 6 73 .

Peter , d ied F eb. 9 , 1 7 8 6 , aged 8 0 .

Ann, w ife O f Peter,(1 . F eb. 5

, 1 7 80 ,aged 6 0 .

Sam uel, di ed Aug.,2 1 , 1 8 2 3 , aged 73 .

Elizabeth, w . O f d . N ov. 1 0,1 8 0 7 , aged 6 6 .

H IT CH C O C K , M a ry , died Aug. 2 8 , 1 80 1 , aged 3 5 .

H O L C O T , Rober t, d . O c t . 25 , 1 6 00 .

O ra te pro anim a venerab ilis a c se ientific i viri, m agis tri Rober ti H olcot, s a cer

do tis a c a r chim agistri,ne cnonhujus insignis ecclesiae vica rii vitam dum agitare t in hum anis qui Dom ino obdorm ivit m ens is O ctobris luce vicesim a quinta ,anno CCCCCO . Huic propic ietur ille, cni om nium r erum prim a potes ta s .

H O LI‘

O R D, Eliz abeth , (1 . J an. 1 1 , 1 8 1 9 , aged 73 .

H O L IDAY , Micha el, d . Ap. 3 , 1 80 1 . also Annhis w . d . May 22 , 1 8 08 .

H O N EYB O N E , John, la te s ervant to M rs . Needham ,d . Jan. 1 6 , 17 8 0 , aged 5 3 .

H O RDE,Frances, w . of S ir Th . H .

,d. July 2 3 , 1 63 3 , ag. 3 6 .

Thom a s, esq. elde st sonof Sir Th . H . d . N ov. 1

,1 7 15 , ag. 9 2 Barbara

his fir s t w . d . Aug. 1 2 , 1 6 7 1 , ag. 44 .

S eeks not inm a rble, nor this s tra itened roomBut country ’ s greife her epitaph and tom b eThis keeps her dust, her m em

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ry tha t shall keep ,While m enc anver tue love or losses weepe .

Charles , eld. s . o f ThO . 8 : B a r . ,(1 . July 29 , 1 693 , ag.

Susanna , second w . of Tho . H . , Aug. 1 2 , 1 6 8 0 , ag. 3 7 .

[The genea logies of the Horde fam ily given on these tom b s ar e too long to behere enum era ted ]H U DS O N , ROb and J ane, his w . ,

he d . M a rch .26 , 1 768, ag.

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75 , She d . N ov. 5 , 1 7 74,a ged 75 .

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LAMBETH,Elizth , w . of Thos L., d . June 1 7 , 1 804, ag. 75 . Richard Robert

the ir sons . d . ininfancy .

Eliz abeth , wife o f J am es , (1 . Jan. 6,1 83 2 , ag. 62 .

Deep interr ’

d inea r th ’

s dark tom b, The m ould'

r ing body liesBut the Chr is t ianfrom the tom b Shall soontr ium phant rise .

S im onCollins , (1 . July 3 1 , 1 83 7 , aged 3 8 .

Weep no t for m e, m y dea r w ife, But ra ther do r ej oice,

Though I w a s called away so s oon, I wa s the A lm ighty ’ s choice .

L AR DNER , Waller, Sen., O f B am ptone, (1 . Jan. 7 , 1 70 2, aged 72 .

S tand s till, k ind r eader, spend a t ea r Upon the dus t tha t sleepeth h ere,

And whils t youread th is s ta te of m ine ,Think of the gla ss tha t runs of thine .

L A U RAN CE, s . of Rich . 8: S arah L . , of A s tell, d . A pril 1 1, 1 75 6 , ag. 62 .

LEA KE , John, s . of Thos and Hannah, d . O ct . 2 , 1 8 1 7 ag. 9 m onths .Benea th th is s tone aninfant lies , Whose ear th to a shes lentHerea fter m ay

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m or e glor ious r is e, Though not m ore inno cent .Elizabe th, wife ofThos , d . D ec 2 2

,1 8 1 2 , ag. 49 .

There is no age tha t dea th will spar e , A ll ages , they m us t dieTherefore to die le t a ll p repar e , To live e ternally .

T hom a s . (1 . July 4, 1 8 1 9 , aged 6 9 .

LEF O RE ST IER , Louis , (1 . A p. 8 , 1 84 1 , a

ged 8 m onths .

Y

LEVER ID , Elizabe th, w . of J ohn L. , Aug. 1 0 , 1 6 70 .

LEW I S,Joseph, s . of John and Mar L .

,d. O ct . 29 , 1 7 74 , ag 29 .

L I N D SEY, M ary , w . of Hum phrey L . , of Co a te , d . Ma rch 1 1, 1 774, aged 80 .

Hum phrey, of Coa te, died June 5 , 1 7 75 , aged 9 1 .

Edward, d . Aug. 3 0 , 1 8 1 3 , ag. 79 .— also AnnL . , d . A pril 26 , 1 8 1 7, ag. 63 .

Th is stone presents before th’ unth ink ing throng

Th’

instructive less on, a s they pa ss along ;Shews them how fra il they a re, how w ise

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t would be,To s eek a fi tness for e ternity .

L I S SET T, Rev. Rd, M . A . , vicar of O undle inNor th am ptonshire, d . D ec . 1 4, 1 764,ag. 7 1 . a lso Wm L.

, Gent . , J ane, his w ., she d . Ap. 20

,1 75 3 . he (I. A p. 1 , 1 772 .

Mr . William , gent . , d . M ar . 1 7 , 1 79 1 , ag. 65 . also Eliza , relic t of the sa idW . L.

,d . Nov. 1 8 , 1 79 6 , ag. 80 . Mrs . Jane his s is ter, (1 . D ec . 3 1 , 1 799 , ag. 6 9 .

MA CE,Rober t, d . Feb.

,1 6 82 .

M A C CA U GH EY , AnnWa shington, d . March 2 2 , 1 7 9 8 , ag. 5 y . R I CH A RD M . ,d . June 2 7 , 1 80 2 , aged 2 year s 3 m onths and 6 days .

MA LAM,Richard, d . July 1 3 , l 773 ,ag. 8 8 . J O H N

,and MA RY his Wife, he (1 . S ep.

2 6, 1 7 74, ag. 5 6 . she d . July 24 , 1 7 75 , ag. 54 .

M AN DER,John, esq. , d . Ap 7 , 1 8 09 , ag. 6 2 . Mr s . Sarah M . , his m other , died 1 78 8 .

also JO H N NA BB S, Eliz abeth, his w . , he d . Ap. 3 , 1 77O . She d . March 6 , 1 769 .

MA RT I N , Mrs . Elizabeth, died Sept . 1 7 , 1 799 , aged 80 ,M AY

,Mary, spinster, d . Jan. 3 , 1 804, aged 93 .

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Infa ith she die s , w ithinshe lies Here undernea th, though Without brea th .

M ERCH AN T , Elizabeth, w . ofWilliam ,d . July , 1 8 , 1 73 4, aged 5 3 .

M ERR I CK,Mary, daughter of Johnand Ann, buried Jan. 1 8 , 1 78 8 , ag. 3 0 .

- also

Ann,w . of JohnM .,

buried Sep. 1 8 , 1 772 , ag. 3 9 . a lso Wm, s . of John and

Ann, buried F eb. 3,1 77 8 , aged 6 .

A ffl ic tion’

s sore long tim e I bore, Physicians w ere inva in,T ill the Lord plea sed Dea th should m e seize, To ea se m e Ofm y pain.

MILLER,David

,second 3 . Of David and Ma rtha , (1 . M ar . 7, 1 804, ag. 4 y . 1 1 m .

Benea th a lovely infant lies , To ea r th h is body lentMore glor ious sha ll herea fter rise , Though not m ore innocent ;Whenth e a rchang el ’s trum p shall blow , And s ouls to bodies j o in,M illions w illwish their lives below, H ad beena s shor t a s th ine .

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MI L LER , David, (1. Feb. 2 7 , 1 8 29 , aged 73 .

M O N K,J R . andM ary his w . H e (1 . J an. 2 1 , 1 78 7 , ag. 59 . She d . D ec . 19 , 1 809 , ag. 75 .

— Elizabe th,(1 . F eb. 24, 1 8 26 , aged 6 2 .

Youtha t a r e young, prepa re to die , I onc e w a s young, and here I lie,My m a rr iage-bed lie s inthe dust, Chr is t is m y spouse, inwhom I trust .

M a ry, (1 . of Wm and M a ry M . , d . Sep. 2 1 , 1 8 41 , aged 26 .

Kind angels gua rd this sleep ing dust, Till Chris t shall com e to ra ise the justThenm ay she w ake inswee t surpris e , And inher Saviour ’

s im age rise .

John, died O ct . 24 , 1 83 7 , aged 5 2 .

Fa rew ell, m y w ife and childrendea r, I ’m gone to r es t , y ouneednot fea r .

Inlove w e lived ; inpea ce I died, Youcrav’

d m y life, but God denied ;G rieve not for m e , for’

t is inva in, I hope inHeavento m eet aga in.

Wm,la te of A s ton, died Jan. 1 6 , 1 848 , aged 8 2 .

Keep dea th and judgm ent a lways inyour eye,None a re fit to live, who a re no t fi t to dieM ake use of pr esent tim e, because youm ustTa ke up your lodgings , shor tly , in the dustT is dreadful to behold the se tting sun,And night approa ching ere your wo rk is done .

MO R SE , Richa rd , d ied Dec . 3 1 8 1 7 , aged 5 2 .

MYN C H IN O E, Roberte, of , d. Sep. 14, 1 6 1 1 .

N EWM A N , Mr . Edw. , ( 1. J an. 8 , 1 7 75 , aged 6 8 .

O RPWO O I) , Wm , d . Aug. 13 , 1 709 , aged 2 8 . Wm , d . June 24, 1 73 1 , ag. 5 8 .

Wm , buried July 23 , 1 75 0 , aged 83 .

Thos, andMa ry, his w . , he (1 . D ec . 27 , l 7 75 , ag. 3 8 . she (I. May 2 1 , 1 77 1 ,ag. 75 . Anntheir grddr . buried Feb. 1 , 1 7 7 1 , ag. 24 .

William , s onof Jnand Hannah

,(1 . Jan. 3 , 1 7 79 ,

H annah , w . of J ohn. O . , (1. O ct . 1 3 , 1 8 00 , ag. 7 7 .

Jn, d. F eb. 2 0 , 1 80 7 , ag. 86 .

Elizth, (1 . J an. 5 , 1 8 1 1 , ag. 7 7 .

There is no a e tha t dea th w ill spare , A ll ages they m us t die ;Therefore to die, let a ll repare l

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o live eternal]PA LMER

,Barb . , w id. eldes t dr . ofThos . Horde , e sq .

,who (1

1

. Jan. 7 , 1 6 8 1 , ag. 2 7,and left 3 sons , nam ed Giles , J ohn, and Thom a s .

PAWL IN O , Hannah , w . ofWm . P.,d . June 7 , 1 752 , ag. 4 yrs . Hannah, their

dr ., (1 . May 6 1 7 2 , ag. 8 yrs .

—W illiam , (1 . M ay 23 , 1 799 , ag . 6 3 . AnnP . , his ,m other, d . D ec . 1 8 ,PETT IPER , Sa rah , w . of Edwd, d . March 27 , 1 7 75 , ag. 3 2 . Eleanor, dr . O fWm andAnnP .

, d ied March 1 6 , 1 7 8 1 , aged 1 0 m onths .

Elizth,w . ofEdwd, (1 . Jan. 2 6 , 1 826 , ag. 73 . Edwd P . , d . June 2 0 , ag. 89 .

John, s onof Edwd and Elizth , died A r il 1 , 1 79 6 , aged 1 7 yrs .

PH I L IP S,Stephen. H ic j a cet S tephanus Philips , T . P . O biit 1 6 84 .

PH I L IP S, Rev. Step . ,D . D . d . Aug. 20 , 1 784, ag. 46 . m on. erected by his widowMary

,dau. of

P IN C O T , Elizabeth, died A r . 29 , 1 805 , age d 74 .

Long inthis world I didprem a in, My la t ter end wa s grief and painAnd whenthe Lord he thought it best , H e took m e to a pla ce of rest

P LA S T ER, Wm, and Mary, his wife, (1 . June 6 , 1 79 7 , ag. 3 5 .

— Sarah the ir inf. dr .

— Rob.,s . of Rob. and Mary, died Apr . 2 1 , 1 78 8 , ag. 2 1 .

Rob. ,d . Feb. ag. 78 . M a ry

,w . of Rob. , (1 . Aug. 23 , 1 8 1 1 , ag. 90 .

Ma rga ret, w . ofWm , d . May 2 1 , 1 8 1 8 , ag. 25 .

PLYMM YSW O DE, Thom a s . H ie'

a cet m ag. Tho . Pl. quondam vicariu s de Ram p . cujusanim aa propicietur Deus . m en!

PR ICE,Ma ry, w . ofWalter, la te O fM arcyham pton, Glost. d . Dec . 28 , 1 835 , ag. 95 .

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PR U C E, Jane , w . ofJn, d . O c t . M ary Hudson,(1. July ag. 78 .

PRYO R, Robt, d . Ma rch 1 7 0 1 . M ary, his w . d . Dec . , 1 79 2 . Wm P. (1 . Jan. 1 8 1 828ag. 8 0 . Elizth, his w . d. Aug. 2 1 , 1 83 2 , ag. 7 8 . W

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m P . d . June 25, 1 75 1 , aged 6 2:Ma ry, his w ife died M ay 1 9 , 1 8 1 2 , aged 89 .

P U S S Y , Ma ry. wife of J ohn, died aged 63 .

REYNO LDS , Rev. Wm ., M . A ., double por tionist of B ., (1. Jan. 2 8, 1 75 0 , ag. 46 .

RA CHA EL, his w , d . S ep. 1 8 , 1 7 7 1 , ag. 74 . MA RY, the ir dau. ,

d . D ec . 23 , 1 744ag. 1 9 .

R ICR ETT S , Betty, w . ofJo se h, la te of A s ton, d. Ma rch 1 1 , ag. 79 .

Fa rewell m y children relhtions dea r, I ’

m gone to rest ; youhave no cause to fea r .

G rieve not for m e ; intim e apply ; To m eet tha t s entence a ll a r e doom ’

d to die :So shallw e m eet aga into pa r t no m ore, But live w ith Christ inp ea ce for everm ore .

R IDGE, Thos, d . May 23 , 1 7 9 2, ag. 8 2 . Elizth,his w . d . Sep. 1 8 , 1 765 .

RO BERT S , Sarah , w . ofWm , d . O ct . 1 6,1 79 1 , ag. 5 9 . Maria

, dr of Wm and SarahR .,d . March 1 1 , 1 7 79 , ag. 1 2 .

Maria,dr ofWm and Ma ry R . , d

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. Sep. 1 7 , 1 8 22 , ag. 20 .Fred . s .

ofWm and M ary R ., died inhis infancy— M a ry R .

,d . N ov. 3

, 1 83 0 , ag. 3 3 .

Sa r ah, (1. March 1 1 , 1 83 2 , ag. 7 1 .— Tabitha , R .

,d, June 6 , 1 83 2, ag. 6 8 .

Wm, esq. , d . D ec . , 1 843 , ag. 77 .

RO B I N S, J as, s . of Levi and J ane, d . M ay 28 , 1 8 1 8 , ag. 8 . Ann, their dr .,d

.June 8 ,

1 826 , ag. 2 m onths .

RO S E, Geo .

, ( 3 . Of Ja s R .

, solr .

,and Elizth his w . ) d . June 1 2

,1 843 , ag. 2 6 .

SAMMONS , A m elia Ann, w . of Thos, d . A pr . 2 8 , 1 8 05 , ag. 6 7 .-

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hos S ., (1.O ct . 2 7, 1 7 79 , ag. 5 2 .

SAN D ELA N DS,Elizth, w . ofJohnS .

,(1 . Jan. 1 8

,1 70 1 . Elizth

,d. of Johnand Elizth .

SAVO RY, John, d . J an. 3 , 1 80 8 , aged 23 .

SEAREY, Ann, (1 . Sept . 1 9 , 1 7 80 . J ohnS . , (1. D ec . 2 7 , 1 7 8 7 , ag. 7 7 ,Charlotte, w . om

, d . May 2 1 , 1 80 8 , ag.4 0 . Wm , s . O fWm Charlo tte .

El izth,w . ofWm , (1 . Sept . 2 1 , 1 8 1 7 , a 3 8 .

My husband and m y childrendear , I t is GodS w ill tha t I am here ,A s 1 am , so m us t yoube, Prepare ther efore to follow m e .

Ca tha r ine, wife O f John, died M a rch 3 1 , 1 804, aged 6 7 .

A Chris tiantrue, a friend Sincere, Inall her a c t ions just,A tender fa ithful w ife lies here , Cons igned to na tive dust .

Richa rd Charlotte, the ir inf. chiln. also John,died A pril 2 7 , 1 80 7 , ag. 72 .

Pea ce‘

to thy gentle shade ; thy s oul is free ; Dea th ’

s but the ga te to im m orta lityWilliam ,

died O ctober 20 , 1 8 29 , aged 6 3 .

Here lies a careful industrious m an,Who didby labour m ea sure out life ’

s span,

Butnow his la test gra inof s and is run, And a ll his c are and a ll his labour done.

So, pray, for m e no pity take But love m y childrenfor m y s ake .

Thom as , sonof J ohnand Ca tharine , died D ec . 1 7, 1 8 1 1 , aged 33 . ! Inscriptioninpoetry . S ee page 5 7 , O rpwood Elizabeth .

John, died January 2 , 1 82 1 , aged 5 6 .

Man’

s life, wha t is ’

T is a flower, Looks fresh and dies w ithinanhour .

H ow fra il is m an! how short his brea th, Inm ids t of life we a re indea th .

SH EPPA R D, W . H ., esq.

,1 7 1 5 .

SH INGLET O N , Mary, w . of Joseph S . sen, d. M ay 4 , 1 7 74, ag. 72 .

Through all affl ictionGod great com fort gave,And la id m e pea ceful inthe silent grave,From which I hope to rise m y God to see

To dwell w ith Christ to a ll eternity .

Jos . , sen, d . F eb. 3 , 1 7 77, ag. 8 0 .

Sarah, w . of Jos . d . Ma rch 2 2 , 1 79 8 , ag. 5 8 . Jos . S . , (1 . Dec . 2 0,1 8 1 3 ,

aged 8 1 .

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Reader, fro m hence these lessons take, View dea th a s a lways nearB e w ean

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d from e a r thly things , and m ake Thy soul thy chiefes t ca re .

William ,(1 . June 1 9 , 1 8 0 2 , ag 6 5 . Ann, his w . ,

d . Sep. 1 1,1 8 1 8 , ag. 82 .

Eliz abeth , w ife of Thom a s, died Jan. 23

, 1 80 2, aged 7 0 .

Ladenw ith yea rs , by s icknes s pres t, This pious m a troncam e to rest,A fa ir exam ple O fgood life , She wa s a cha s te and loving w ife,H er house did shew her prudent ca re , She knew bo th how to spend and spare,Mournno t, she ’

s gone where tea r s do cea se, H er upr ight life did end inpea c e .

a lso Thom a s Townsend. died A pril 3 , 1 80 1 , aged 6 3 .

Robert, died A pr il 1 0 , 1 82 7 , aged 6 8 .

Farewell m y w ife and childrendea r, It wa s the Lord tha t call ’d m e here,S hor t wa s the wa rning which he gave

,When1 wa s sum m on

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d to the gra ve,But inthe Lord I put m y trust , And hope to r ise am ong the just .also M ary, his w ife , died F eb. 1

,1 83 3 , aged 6 8 .

John, d . Ma r . 1 5 , 1 8 29 , ag. 72 . Ann, his w .,d . Jan. 6

,1 82 1 . ag. 5 9 .

Robert Caleb, d . Jan. 1 9,1 832 , ag. 2 6 . Mary Ann

, dr . of Rob. Cal.Lydi a T . , died ininfancy . Thom a s , died F eb. 20

,1 8 3 3 , aged 43 .

Joseph , (1 . June 1 0 , 1 833 , ag. 6 1 . J ane , h is w ife, died June 1 6 , 1 83 7,aged 64 . also Charlo tte, their dr . ,

died D ec . 1 4 , aged 3 0 .

Wm,la te of A s ton

, d . N ov. 2 1 , 1 8 3 7 , ag. 8 2 . Thom a s T ., la te ofChigwell,

sonof the above . a lso Wm Townsend , d . O ct . 5, 1 840 , ag. 5 0 . [ Inscr . see p .

Tho s , d . Ma y 9 , 1 841 , ag. 74 . Elizth, his w . ,d . June 1 7 , 1 843 , ag. 79 ,

also J ohn, W illiam , David, and S arah, his brothers and s is ters ; Jn, d . M ar 2 8 ,1 83 1 , ag. 6 8 . Wm

, d . N ov. 29 , 1 825 , ag. 6 0 . David, d . N ov. 3 0 , 1 8 2 1 , ag. 49 .

Ann, w ife of John,died July 2 8 , 1 8 1 3 , aged 74 .

Dea r reader, ’

tis a serious th ing to die , Thou soonm ust find it so a s well as IIf for our work s we blis s or w oe r eceive , Dear r eader , ’

tis a serious thing to live .

J ohn, pf fl oate , ‘

d ied Sep. 1 , 1 8 1 8 , ‘

aged 72 .

VA ISEY, John, infant, died Nov . 23 , 1 724 .

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WA LKER, Jo s .

, esq. . (1. J an. 1 ,1 80 3 , ag. 6 3 . Elizth, his w . ,

d . Mar . 9 , 1 8 1 8 , ag. 63 .

WA RD , J ane, w ife o f J a s , dr . of J ohn Jane Skinner , d . Jan. 1 2, 1 83 1 , ag. 48 . also

Sa rah , m other of J as W . , died Aug. 8 , 1 83 4, aged 90 .

WA T T S , Da vid, d . M ay 1 , 1 8 1 1 , ag. 6 1 . also Wm MuntW .,sonof the above by Eli

z abeth,his w ife, died D ec 2 8 , 1 8 1 3 .

W ENM AN , Anthony, died 3 , 1 7 1 5 . Richard, junior, died N O V . 8 , 1 740 .

Who ga ve m e life took it away . And turned m y body into clayMy tim e w a s Short, and so m ay thine, Therefore prepa re thyself intim e .

—Richar d, died Sep t . 27 , 1 72 2 . [ Inscrip. s ee page 5 0 , Ma ry Ba tt s .]WH ITA KER, M ar ia , w . ofWm Henry esq.

, of Fyfield, Berk s , d . Aug. 2 , 1 83 9 , ag. 53 .

WH ITE , William , and J ohn, sons O f Johnand AnnW . Willm died Aug. 24, 1 7 1 2 ,aged 2 . J ohndi ed Aug. 2 6 , 1 7 1 2 .

WIA T , Elizabeth, wife of D r. W .,died anno 1 6 88 . a rm s

, per pa le .

WILL I AM S,J ohn, 85 Ann, his w ife . she died Aug. 1 9 , 1 79 0 , aged 6 3 . he died Jan. 1 7 ,

1 8 0 1 , aged 8 2 . a lso the ir s ons Charles and Johndied intheir infancy .

WIN ST A N L EY , Rev. Wm Bankes,M a ster of the Gram m ar School inthis towndi ed

S ept . 3 0 , 1 843 , aged 5 6 .

WIN ST A NLEY, Rev. JohnRobinson, D . D . a vicar of this par ish , died . Dec . 26 , 1 843 .

WINTE R , Sarah, wife, of J os eph, died 1 79 7 , aged 1 5 . Richard, diedIt is s a id tha t th is wa s the s am e R ichard W inter, Tax-

getherer, O f whom som e

w it w rote the following cleve r epigramHere com es Richa rd W inter, c ollector O f taxes ;I advise youto pay him wha tever he axe s ;And tha t very soon, and without any flum m ery,F or though h is nam e

’

s W I N'T ER, his a c ts a re all S UMMA RY .

W R IGH T , William ,died Aug. 29 , 1 8 2 2 , aged 59 .

O Lord , turnnot thy fa ce a way Fr om him that lies prostra teLam ent ing sore h is s inful li fe Befor e thy m ercy ’s ga te

APPEND IX, NO XX I I I . 6 1

a lso Sarah, (1. Aug. 4 , 1 787 ag. 1 6 . foo ts tone T . T . 1 84 1 , E. T . 1 843 .

How va ina re a ll encom ium s onthe deadH ow va inthe stone with em pty pra ise overspread !No sta tely tom b cansooth the weeping w ife,N0 choice inscriptionra ise the friend to life ,Dea th levels all ; the m ona rch and the sla veA like m us t lie unnoticed inthe grave .

WR IGHT S O N , Louisa , daugh ter of Sam uel and Anne, (1 . Aug. 1 , 1 80 2 , ag. 6 yr s 6 m .

YEATMA N , Ma rgare t, w . of Robt Yea tm an, Yeom an, d . Aug. 2

,1 75 0 , ag. 25 . also

Robert Yea tm an, yeom an, d . F eb. 1 9 , 1 792 , ag. 74 . M artha, w . of Rob. Fisher,

died Se 7 , 1 8 1 2 , aged 8 7 . Rober t Fisher , died D ec . 9 , 1 8 29 , aged 72 .

H e die tfinpea ce, but lived inpa in, A w elcom e dea th his grea tes t ga in.

The follow ing were once found inB am p. church-yard , but have beendestroyedWhy should youm ournfor I Seeing it is God ’

s w ill

Tha t m anwa s bornto die The Scrip ture to fulfil.F or the loss of friends Is m uchD O no evil for the Dev il W ill have youif youdo,Be tter ’

twere g ivento youinHea ven To j o in the blessed few .

Th is world ’

s a city full of crooked s tree ts,

Dea th is the m arke t la ce where a ll m enm eets ;

Were life a m er chand)

ize tha t w ealth could buy,The rich would live, none but the poor would die .

XXII I . IN A STO N CHURCH-YARD .

BAKER,Mr Rd , (1 . Aug. 2 1 , 1 845 ag. 5 8 . Selina , dr . of Rd Susanna , d . July 1 0 ,1 845 , ag. 1 8 . W illiam ,

the ir son, d ied Aug. 26 , 1 845 , aged 1 2 yrs .

B A NT IN O , Ann, dr . of Jn Ann, (1. June 2 6 , 1 846 , ag. 3 4 . Weep no t & c . s ee p . 5 2 .

SPA RROWHAWK,Mr . Wm , yeom an, d ied J an. 2 7 , 1 842 , aged 5 6 years .

TOWNSEND,John, s onof J oseph and J ane T .

, d . F eb. 1 1,1 8 46 , ag. 3 6 .

Shor t wa s the wa rning tha t Dea th gave , WhenI wa s sum m on’

d to the graveS O God wa s plea sed to end m y t im e, And cut m e O tf jus t inm y prim e .

Alfred, younges t sono f David Wa tt s T . 85 Sa rah h is w, , of Coa te, d .

March 2,1 842 , aged 1 6 yea rs .

Jus t inm y you th and bloom ing yea rs , I left m y friends w ith weeping tearsGod called inhas te m y soul did fly : I ’

m gone to res t eternally .

XXIV . IN LEW CHURCH-YARD .

BUTTS , Phoebe , dr . of Rober t and Phoebe B . , d. D ec . 5,1 8 15

,aged 1 9 yrs .

Gr ieve no t for m e , m y pa rents dea r , I ’

m gone to re s t, youneed no t fear .

God c all’

d inha s te ; m y soul did fly ; I ’

m gone to rest e terna lly .

Inlove we lived ; inpea ce I died ; Youc ra ved m y life , but God denied .

Here lies a child tha t ’

s dea r to m e ; Chr is t c all ’d her hence his j oys to s ee .

I hope inHeaven1 sha ll her find, Which heals the troubles O fm y m ind .

XXV . IN SHIFFO RD CHURCH A ND CHURCH-YA RD .

BAGGS , William ,sonof Johnand Elizabeth, (1 . J an. 1 0

, 1 7 1 7 , aged 2 0 .

- A aron, d ied Nov. 1 8 , 1 726 .

BENN ET,Edwa rd

,d ied N ov . 1 1 , 1 729 , aged 78 .

BLIT H E,Mrs . Susan, w . Of Mr . A dam Blithe

, r ec tor of O gborne S t . G eorge , Wilts . ,

H er fa ther, Mr . Andrea s S onibank e , wa s a near rela tionto the Duke of Brunswick : her m other wa s of the ancient fam ily of the B radfords , o f Ludlow

,in

Shropshire . Th is gentlewom an in her life- tim e m ade this follow ing epitaph,to be set uponher tom b . Chris t, bir th, life , dea th, And doleful payne,

Inlife and dea th , to m e is ga ine .

She d ied N ov. 9 , 1 645 , aged 75 yea r s , and left is sue only one daughter .

BRO WN , S ophia , w ife ofThom a s B . , O f Br ightham p ton, d . Feb. 1 9 , 1 8 1 3 , ag. 45 .

A lov ing w ife , a tender m other dea r , A youthful fr iend lies buried he r

6 2 H ISTORY OF BAMPTO N,

a lso S arah Ann, daughter of Thom a s and S ophia B . ,d . O ct . 2 , 1 835 , ag. 4 yrs .

Thom a s,sonO f

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l’

hos and Sophia , of B r igh th am pton,d . May 1 , 1 843 , ag. 22 .W ith a tienc e to the la s t & c . [ Inscrip. see page 5 2

, Susanna Co llins .]DA RB Rober t , la te of A ston, d . D ec . 1 5,1 8 1 1 , aged 7 2 .

Rober t, la te of Co te,S ith and Fa rr ier , (1. Sept. 1 7 , 1 772 , aged 73 , a lsoMa ry, his wife , died March 30 , 1 8 0 1 , aged 1 0 2 yrs . 1 1 m s .

LAMBET I-I , Thom a s , died M’ay 1 5 , 1 8 0 3 , aged 84 .

LO N G, M a r ia , w . o f J am es , d. O ct . 1 8 , 1 8 1 9 , aged 2 4.

Fa rew ell, va inw o rld 1 I hid a dieu to thee,I va luenot wha t thou c ans t say Ofm e ;Wha t faults thou s ee s t inm e , t ake c a re to shun

, And look a t hom e enough the re ’

s

P INNOCK ,W illiam , died J an. 23

,1 79 1 , aged 5 0 . [ to be done .

Mary , w .,of J ohnP . , and dr . of Johnand AnnW

'

a lter , Of S tantonHa rcourt , d . M ay 1 5 , 1 8 00 , ag. 2 7 .

Elizth,w . of Thos

,la te of Brightham p ton, d. M ay 23 , 1 8 1 7 , ag. 8

IVhile here onea r th a true and fa ithful friend ,Es teem

’

d by tho se who knew her to the end,

She neve r a t the w ill of God repined,But s t ill enj oy

’

d a calm and hea venly m ind,

M ade God her refuge, inh im put her trus t,And to h is ca re re s ign

’

d her ea r thly du s t .

- Thom a s , la te of Br ightham pton, d . S ep. 3 0,1 8 1 8

,ag. 53 .

A ffl ic tions sore long t im e 1 bor e , And r a cking pam s did long endure .

But did subm it, whenGod though t fi t, Benea th I lie from pa ins relea s ’

d.

Hannah , w . O f Joseph, ( 1 . N ov . 1 2 , 1 8 2 1 , aged 43 .

My la tte r days one a r th wa s sp ent Inpa inS evere , which God ha th sent,Butnow inpea c e I ’m la id to sleep , W'

ith J esus Chris t I hope to m ee t ;My s o r rows pa s t, a lso m y pa in, We only pa rt to m eet again.

Hannah, w. ofWm P.,la te of B rightham pt . , d . D ec . 22

,1 822 , ag. 62 .

Weep no t fo r m e, m y ch ildrendea r, N o r spend your hours ingrief ;To Heavenaddres s your fervent prayer , And ther e you ’ll find r elief.De sp is e this world, and onwa rd pr e s s To rea ch the happy shoreWher e trouble s end and sorrows cea se, And tea r s sha ll fl ow no m o re .

Hannah M a r ia , dr . of Wm Hannah , d. July 1 8 , 1 823 , ag. 20 yrs .

Your eaders a ll tha t pa s se th by , Pray think of dea th, for youm us t dieRepent int im e

,m ake no delay , I inm y p rim e wa s ca ll

’

d away ;My da y s a re spent , m y gla s s is run, Andnow ,

swee t J esus,I am com e 1

Cha rles , la te O f Br ightham p ton, d . A pr . 29,1 8 2 8 , ag. 83 yr s .

S incer e to all, and upr igh t inhis way s , And all h is a c tiens,j us tly m er it pr a is e

Bles sed be those who live beloved by m o st, And died lam ented ar e the grea testM er cy , w . o f Th . Ellen, their infant dr . [los s .

also Es ther , their daughter , (1 . A ug. 1 9,1 8 3 8 , aged 1 4 .

M a r tha,dr . of Thos and M er cy P .

,d . Aug. 1 2

,1 83 5

,ag. 1 5 yrs .

M ar tha,w ife of Thom a s , (1 . Jan. aged 7 1 .

A pale consum p tionga ve the fa tal blow ,'

lhe s tr oke wa s cer ta in, but th’

effec t wa s slow .

W'

ith w a s ting pa indea th found m e sore oppre st,Pit ied m y s ighs and kindly gave m e re st .

John la te of S tandlake, (1 . suddenly Nov . 22,1 841 , aged 6 9 . Ca roline,daugh ter of J ohn and M ary P .

, d. O c t . 26 , 1 8 1 1 . a lso li san, their infant son.

PRY O R ,“7m , (1 . A p 5 , 1 72 3 , ag. 5 2 . insc . a s above , s ee T . Brown.

W IGINGS , W illiam ,and M ary, his w .

, he d. M a rch 1 727 , ag. 6 0 . she d . Dec .

1 8 , 1 7 29 , aged 7 1 .

Wherefor e th is is ye t once aga in, My hu sband, m y request,T o grant m e pa rdonfor m y sin, Tha t I inthee m ay res t .

1VIT H ER S , Ma rgery, w . of \Va ller W . o f Br ightham pton,(1 . Feb. 3

,1 728 , ag. 6 8 .

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WR IGH T , John, d ied July 25 , 1 7 0 6 , aged 1 5 ye ars .

M a ry,w . ofWm , la te O f Chim ney

,d . M ay 1 0 , 1 8 1 0 , ag. 60 . William ,

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CONTENTS .

page page1 . Introduct ion x i I I . Chart er of Leofr 1c to th e church of Ex e ter2 . Descriptionof Bam ptoninit s pre sent s ta te xvi A . D . 1 046 " . 4

3 . O f the clim a te and soil of Bam ptonPar ish x x i I I I . Survey of Bam pton. A . D .

4 . O f the townof B am pton. . xx ii IV . Charter of king H enry I I I , da ted M arch5 . O f th e pa rish church o f Bam pton xxiv 1 0 , 1 249 , granting the m anor of Bam ptonto6 . O f the vicars and church -e s tabli shm ent William de Va lence 6

of Bam pton xxxii V . Inqui s it ion, copy of th e hundred-roll o f7 . O rder and success ionof the vicar s of Bam ptonand A s ton. 3d Edward . [A . D .

xxxiv 1 274 7

8 . Par ish ~regi ste rs ,no longer m use ,kept”

V I . Pleas of a ss ize held a t O x ford inthel3tliinthe sm all iron x lii i year of Edw ard I , IA . D . 1 285 9

9 . O f the vestry xlix1 0 . Deed s inth e grea t ironchest

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1 1 . O f the police and c ivil governm entof Bam pton. . . ibid .

1 2 . The town-hall " . . lxi i1 3 . O f the fa ir and public aiiiiiseineii ts m

lxiii14 . Th e haunted hous e , and dea th warning

of the Wood

I6 . Legend of the lady well . . 1xxii1 7 . Ghos t of Cow -]ea s corner

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lx x iv

1 8 . O f the trade and occupa t ionof the

inhabit ant s lxxviii1 9 . A ston . lxxix2 0 . Cote “

lxxxi2 1 . Cote lxx x i2 2 . Cote H ouse .

1xx xj r2 3. Shifford lxxx i 124 . Chim ney lx x xw

2 5 . Brightham pton lxxxv26 . Lew lxxxv2 7 . O f the public chari ties efBairip

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ton lxxx v28 .Mano rs ofBam pton, Bam p tondeanery

A s ton, and Sh ifford29 . Pa s t hi story of Bam p ton, chronologica lly

a rrangedA PPEND IX.

I.K ing Alfred ’s pa rliam ent a t Shifford ,

A . D . 890 p . 3

NAMES or SUBSCRIBERS p . 64

V I I . Inquis it ionof k ing Edwa rd I I , da tedm

Nov . 28 and Dec .

V I I I . Inquisit ionof k ing Edw a rd I I , da tedD ec . 9 and 20 , A D . 1 327 .IX Inquis it ionof K Edw ard I I I , Jan. 26,

A . D 1 329 .

X . Grant of free warrento RichardTalbot ,14 Edw I I I , A D . 1 341 . A p .

X I . Inquisit ionof 3oth of Edw I I I A . D1 35 7 "

X I I . Inquisitonof Edw . I I I . A . D . 1362“

X I I I . Inqui s it ionof Edw I I I , A D . 1 36 7

X IV . Ex t ract from H enry VI I I ’s grant & c .

A . D .

X V. Ca talogue ofNa tural a r t ificia lcurios it ie s inO x fords hire

XV I . Inquis itionconcerning Bam ptonGram m a r-school A . D . 28

XV I I . S ale ofm oiety of B am pton~deanerym anor , A . D . 1 650

XV I I I . A ppointm ent of first m as ter to

gram m a r- s chool A . D . 35

X IX . Inquisit ions takena t Bam pton,

A . D . 1 680

XX . Hudson’

s pam phlet onthe Bam ptonchar it ies , reprinted

XX I . O rder s and s ta tutes forgthe Gram m a r

s chool 1 73 1XX I I . Ins cript ions from Bam ptonchurch and

churchPO STSCR IPT 6 6

ILLUSTRAT IO NS .

1 .Bam pton-Deanery m anor-house

2 and 3 . T own-hall, and H igh S t reet4 and 5 . Vicar age , and We st V iew of Bam ptonchurch6 and 7 . Ruins of ca stle , and deanery8 and 9 . Seal found a t A st on, and A s ton

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ros s

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1 0 8: 1 1 . Lew church , and H ouse a t Lew belonging toT.Denton, e sq1 2 B am ptonGram m a r School .

1 3 8: 14. Cote H ouse , and Sh iffoi'd chiirchN

F INI S