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The registers date from the year 1559, there being esq. the Dean and Chapter of Ely, Queens' College,' Cam- separate registers for the two churches up to the 1j'th bridge, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. are the century, when the benefices were united by Act of Par- p1incipal landowners. The soil is loamy; subsoil, chalk. liament. The living consists of the consolidated· vicar-~ The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and mustard ages of St. Mary and SS. Cyriac and Julitta, net yearly seed. The area is 5,563 acres of 1and and 24 of water; value [3og, derived from 385l acres of glebe, with rateable value, £5,720; the population in 19II was 934, residence, in the gift of the Bishop and the Dean and including part of the ancient British hamlet of Reach, Chapter of Ely alternately, and ·held since 1•897 by the which is about 2 miles north at the western end of the Rev. Lawrence Fisher M.A. of St. John's College, Cam- Devil's Dyke or ditch, partly in this parish and partly bridge. The famous Puritan, Dr. Edmund Calamy the in that of Burwell. The names will be found under a elder, held the living from 162:; to 1631; Dr. George separate heading. Davys, Bishop of Peterborough (1839-64), and Dr. Henry Acting Sexton of the Parish, T. L. Pamplin. Pepys, Bishop of Worcester (1841-61), were curates here. Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Frederick Clark, sub-post- The Most Rev. H. W. Jermyn D.D. sometime Primus master. Letters arrive through Cambridge at 7·5 of the Episcopal Church in Scotland, was born here. a.m. & 2.30 p.m.; dispatched at 11.40 a.m. & 7·45 p.m. The Baptist chapel was built in 1862. The churchyard, & 6.30 p.m. on sundays. The telegraph office is open with a few reservations·, was clos-ed by Order in Council on snndays from 8 to 10 a.m (In May 19, 1899 ; a new burial ground adjoining the east Post Office, Prior Fen.-George Stanford, sub-post- side of the churchyard having been opened for use on master. Letters through arrive at about 9.20 Nov. 15, 1898; it is under the control of the Parish a.m. ; dispatched 3.40 p.m. ; no snnday delivery of Council. There is a reading room, erected in x868 by letters. Wicken is the neares·t money order & tela- Miss Marianne Allix, Mrs. Roberts and Miss Juliana graph office Allix, and !Under the control of C. p; AUix esq. Chari- Wall Letter Boxes.-Church End, cleared 7.15 a.m. & ties producing £84 yearly are appropriated partly to 7·4.S .p.m. week days & 6.30 p.m. sundays; & near the schools and partly to the poor. -Prior "Anchor," , cleared 4 p.m House, built on the site of an old Elizabethan mansion, Public Elementary Schools, erected in 1852, for about a portion of which it incorporates, is the .seat of Charles 150 children; the school is partly supported by funds Peter Allix esq. D.L., J.P. There are several manors administered :under a scheme of the Charity Corn- in the parish, the chief of which are Swaffham Prior, missioners; Edward Atkinson, master; Mrs. Atkinson, belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Ely; Shadforth, mistress the property of Queens' College, Cambridge, and Knights Railway Station, Robert Arnold, station master and Baldwins, belonging to C. P. Allix esq. C. P. Allix Carrier to Cambridge.-Alvah Fordham, wed. & sat

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ham Prior house · Collins Alexander, gardener to Charles 1 *Oakman Henry, beer retailer, Fen Ambrose -Mrs. Liberty hall Peter Allix esq. D.L., J.P Orchard Thomas, Rose & Crown P.H Fisher Rev. Lawrence M.A. The Cooper Robert, draper Palmby Frederick, grocer Vicarage Co,oper Thomas R. photographer 1 *Pratt Charles, farmer, J:<'en Kent Mrs. Liberty hall Creek Rd. refreshmt. rooms, Upware' Reading Room(Chas.ColeAm brose,sec) Tosetti Max, Swaffham Prior hall Crisp Henry William, farmer Reed Thomas, farmer COMMERCIAL. *Fison Frederick Carter, farmer, Fen Scott Edward, Allix Arms P.H. Sta- Adams Thomas & Philip, bricklayers *Folkes Emma (Mrs.), farmer, Fen tion road Aldhouse Arthur, veterinary surgeon Foster Fitz Thomas, miller (wind) Scott Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper Ambrose Charles Cole, farmer Galley Robert, boot maker Stinson Ernest, farmer Asbee George Edward, grocer Godfrey Herbert James, butcher Stinson Waiter, farmer Ashman Hezekiah, farmer Hawkes Charles Peter, insurance agt. Sturges Sidney, butcher Bailey Edward, blacksmith & assistant overseer & clerk to Wadham Clement M. agricultural Bell William, farm bailiff to the the Parish Council machinist Jockey Club *Housden Clement, farmer, Fen Wartnaby Waiter, Red Lion P.H *Butler George, farmer, Fen Housden Herbert, farmer, Fen Willis Harry, coal merchant *Butler Mahala (Mrs.). farmer, Fen *Honsden Horace, farmer, Fen Woollard Charles York, farmer, Bve James·, fa.rm bailiff to Mr. Harold *Housden Waiter, farmer, Fen C9.denham farm • Arthur Kent , *Howe John, farmer, Fen SWAVE.SEY is a large parish and village, with a and lying near it are four Early English coffin slabs, station on the Cambridge and Huntingdon branch of with crosses: in 1867 the church was beautifully re­ the Great Eastern railway, 69 miles from London, u! stored, principally at the expense of the Hon. Mrs. north-west by rail and 9 by road from Cambridge and Dudley Ryder, daughter of Thomas Cockayne, late of 3 south-east from St. Ives, in the Western division of Ickleton House, Hitchin: there are soo sittings. The the county, hundred of Papworth, petty sessional division baptismal register dates from 1576; that for marriages of Cambridge, union of ·St. Ives, county court district and burials from 1613. The living is a vicarage, net of Huntingdon, rural deanery of North Stowe and arch- yearly value £250, including 3· acres of glebe, w1th I deaconry and . The church of St. Andrew, residence, in the gift of the Master and Fellows of (lriginally attached to the priory, is a building of stone Jesus College, Cambridge, and held since 1912 by t.he in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consist- Rev. John S-elwyn Sharp M.A. of that college. The St. ing of chancel with aisles, or chantries, clerestoried Peter's Church Mission house, at the south end of the nave of six bays, aisles, south porch and a western village, erected in 1•893 at a cost of £265, on land tower containing 6 bells : on the south side of the pre&ented by the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, ehancel a.re fine sedilia and piscina of the Decorated Cambridge, is a wooden building and will seat roo period: the entra-nce to the south chantry, rebuilt by p{'ople. Messrs. J. a.nd· H. E. Bush, of The Gra11ge, Thomas Cockayne in 1852. is by two fine Early English Hilperton, Wilts, are owners- of the great or rectorial arches, and it has Late Perpendicular sedilia; in this tithes, valued at about £sso a year. Bethel Baptist chantry is a quasi-classic marble tomb, to Anne cha.pel, first founded in 1840, was rebuilt of brick in (Kempe), wife of Sir John Cutts kt. of Childerley, who r868, at a cost of about £85o, and will seat 400 persons. died 13th March, r631; the inscription also mentions The Baptist chapel, in Main road, has 400 sittings; John Kempe, Cardinal Archbishop of York, and man.y there is also a chapel for Primitive Methodists and a other members of that and allied families ; over the Friends' Meeting House. Charities to the amount of inscriptiim is a shield with 9 quarterings, another with £56 are distributed to the poor yearly in fuel. A 22, and other impaled coats on separate escutcheons; markt't and fair were held here formerly, but have long both chantries are inclosed by modern open screens of been obsolete. The Benedictine priory once existing oak. in the Perpendicular style: the chancel is fitted here 'MlS found-ed by Alan de Zouche in the time of with good modern stalls, restored from an old design William I. as a cell to the monastery of St. Sergius, -and has an altar-piece representing- the "Crucifixion": at Angers, and dedicated to St. Andrew. The Priory, the south aisle retains an Early English .piscina : the the residence of Mrs. Long, is supposed to stand on -chancel arch is a fine exainiple of 13th century work, or near the site. Messrs. Eaden, Spearing and Raynes, and is fitted with a modern screen with half-groined !!Olicitors, of Cambridge, are lords of the manors of TOod loft above: the north aisle with carved finials Swave"ey, with the members, Hobbledodds with Bennets -eontains goed old oak stalls: the font is Perpendioo.lar, and th{' Rectory manor Capt. John Dodson Daintree,