DmECTORY.] . . 151 the first two dat-ed i634, the third 1792 and the tenor · the gift of Francis Floyer esq. 1678. A .sum of £2oo was 1637: in the north wall is a tomb reputed to be that of 1 given by Mrs. Catherine Floyer in 1758, the interest of one Piers Shonks, a legendary hero of the nth century, I which, amounting to £6 Ios. yearly, is distributed during who is said to have died in 1086 : it bears on the top I the winter by the minister and churchwardens in bread a thick slab of Petworth marble on which are emble- and coals to the poor of this parish. Mrs. F1oyer also gave matical carvings in relief:· the tomb is no doubt old, but £10o for repairing the church. Pelbam Hall, is the was evidently constructed many years after the period I property and residence of Edward Exton Barclay esq. who assigned to this famous dragon-slayer: there is a brass is lord of the manor, and with Samuel George Smith in the nave to Mary, wife of Francis Floyer, ob. 1625, esq. of Park, Ware, a principal landowner. The and Anne, his second wife, ob. I627: an organ was soil is heavy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, placed in the chancel in IBBS: there are 270 sittings, barley and beans. The area is I,636 acres; rateable all being free. The register begins in I53B and the value, .f.x,o55; the population in IBgi was 2I5. Visitation of 1297, mentioned under Furneaux Pelham, Parish Clerk, James Sell. includes this church also. The living, united to that Post & Telegraph Office.-Miss Harriett Ellen Bayford, of Forneaux Pelham, is a discharged vicarage, joint net sub-postmistress. Letters arrive through yearly value £I64, with glebe (£37), in the gift of the R.S.O. at 8 a. m. & I2 noon; dispatched at 1.35 & 5.30 Bishop of St. Albans, and held since IB76 by the Rev. p.m. On sundays there is no delivery or dispatch. 'l'be Francis Randolph M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, nearest money order office is at . Postal who resides at Furneaux Pelham : the Rev. Henry Brohier orders are issued here, but not paid Grindle Assoc. of King's College, London, 'has been curate Police Station, Willia.m George Westlake, constable in charge since 1894 -and resides at Brent Pelham par- National School (mixed), built in IB4o, for eo children; $lnage. An annuity of £I2 Ios. wd. for bread is payable average attendance, 25; & has an endowment of £1 to this parish by the Mercers' Company of London under I2S. 6d. yearly; Miss E. A. Harrison, mistress Barclay Edwd. Exton esq.Pelham hall Barltrop Jsph. farmer, Down Hall frm Clarke .A.lfre<),, farmer, Bury farm Grindle Rev. Hy. Brohier, Parsonage Bayford Harriett Ellen (Miss), sub- Lawrence Sl. carpenter & grocer COMMERCIAL. postmistress Sell James, shoe maker Bailey James, farm bailiff to Caton William, grocer, farmer, dra- Tinworth Thomas, Black Horse P.H. Will'.am Oaton esq per & corn & meal mer. Hall farm & bricklayer Banham David, farm bailiff to S. G. Funston Ebenezer, blacksmith & Walker William, farm bailiff to E. E. Smith esq. Beeches farm wheelwright Barclay esq. Cole Green farm FURNEAUX PEI.HAI\t is a parish and village, 4 miles year 1297, which gives a complete account of the furni­ north-east from station on the Buntingford ture, books and vestments of the church at that date. branch of the Great Eastern railway, 8 north-west from The living is a vicarage,. consolidated with that of Brent Bishop Stortford, 5l east-south-east fJ;om Buntingford, Pelham, joint net yearly value £I64, with glebe (£37) and and '35 from London, in the Northern division of the residence, in the gift of the Bishop pf St. Albans, and held county, Edwinstree hundred, Albury petty sessional since 1898 by the Rev. division, Bishop Stortford union and county court district • Here is a Congregational and in the rural deanery of Buntingford and archdeaconry chapel and a Primitive Methodist chapel built in IB73· and diocese of St . .A.lbans. The church of St. Mary the Caryl's charity of £7 2s. Bd. yearly, left in I774 by Francis Virgin is a building of flint and stone, in the Early English Caryl, is for bread, and an annual dividend of £3 IS. 8d. and Perpendicular styles, and consists of chancel, nave of arising from a bequest of Sarah Yarrington, who died three bays, aisles, south porch with parvise, and an em- in 1746, is applied towards a fund for apprenticing poor , battled western tower containing a clock and 6. bells, boys. Furneaux Pelham Hall, the seat of Felix Calvert of which the third, a Pre-Reformation bell, bears the in- esq. J.P. is a mansion in the Elizabethan style, on the scription in black letter, " Sancta Katarina ora pro west side of the village, and has attached ground·s of nobis;" the others are dated respectively, 1723, 1662, about 200 acres. George P. A. Pembroke esq. of 11 1618 and 1792; the tenor weighs II cwt. : in the chan- King's Bench walk, Inner Tmple, London E C, is lord , eel are sedilia and piscina, .also a lancet-headed aumbry of the manor of Furneaux Pelham with its wastes and and a staircase and door leading to the rood-loft: there manorial rights. The principal landowners are Felix are two other piscinre at the eastern ends of the aisles: Calvert esq. and the trustees of Henry Sworder esq. of at the east end of tbe south aisle is a chap-el built by Stanstead, Essex. The soil is mixed ; subsoil, clay and Robert Newport, who died in ~SIB and whose brass, with chalk. The principal crops are wheat and barley. Here effigies of himself and his wife Mary (Allington), is in are a brewery and maltings. The area is 2,578 acres the nave: in the chapel is a fine but mutilated brass, of land and 7 of water; rateable value, £2,746; the popu­ representing a male and a female figure habited in the. lation in 189I was 540. costume of the time of Richard II. and conjectured to White Barns is three quarters of a mile north; East represent John de la Lee, ob. 1370, and Joanna his wife: End, a mile and a half east, close to Essex; and in the south-east corner of the chapel is an altar-tomb to Patient End, three quarters of a mile south. Edward Cason, of the Middle Temple, ob. 9 Sept. I624; Post, M. 0., S. B. & T. Office. .A.lbert Henry Bayford, there is a brass inscription to John Newport esq. son of sub-postmaster. Letters through Buntingford R.S.O. preceding: here also are three stone coffins, disinterred arrive at 7.30 a. m. & I. I$ p.m. ; dispatched at 10.35 & when the church was repaved; one of these bears on the 6 p.m. on week days & 9 a.m. on sundays lid the inscription, "Simonis de Furneux filius:" frag- Wall Letter Box, East end, cleared at 10.15 a.m ments of another ancient tomb have been, for preserva- National School, erected in 1874, for 130 children; tion, built into the wall under the east window: there average attendance, 75; it has an endowment of £9 are 350 sittings, all being free. The r~gister dates from yearly, from a bequest of Mary "V\'neatley in 1724; 1538, and there exists a record of a Visitation in the Miss Jane E. Endersby, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. '3owman Martha (Miss), shopkeeper, ">ig-g Edward, jun. farmer, Patient end Abbott Alfred S East. end 1ule John, farm bailiff to J. C. Bow- Calvert Felix J.P. Furneaux Pelham Bray Thomas, farmer, East end man esq. Hexham hall hall Brown Alex. beer retailer, East end ~avill David, shoe maker Day Charles Elvyn, North view Burton James, shoe maker '3ea Charles, beer retailer Douglas Cap~ain George Sholto J.P. Jhipperf!.eld Alfred, blacksmith, & Wa!rstaff John Phillip M.R.C.S. sur- Whitebarns Yew Tree inn geon & medical officer & public vac- Griffin Alexander, Pelham lodge Crofts Mrs. Ellen, sbpk!.lr. East end cinator Pelham distr'.ct, Bishop Scruby Mrs. M'.ll house Foster Thomas, Brewers' Tap P.H Stortford union & 4th district, Saf- Wagstaff John Phillip M.R.C.S Glasscock Edward, farmer, East end fron Walden union Wills Rev. John B.A. (curate) .Johnson David, farmer, East end Walker Wm. beer retailer, East end McKenna Geo. Carter, White Lion P.H Wisbey Martin, farm~r, Kings farm COMMERCIAL. Mumford William H. grocer & draper WoodwardGeo.frmr.Patmore Lodge fm Bayford Albert Henry, mh-pr.f.tmaster Rayment & Co. brewers & maltsters Wright Thos.beer retlr. Barleycrft.end Bayford Chas. shpkpr. Barleycroft end (A. S . .Abbott, mgr.), Pelham brwry STOCKING PELHA.M is a paril'h and village, on the ingford and archdeaconry and diocese of St. Albans. Essex border, s! miles north-east from Braughing The church of St. Mary is a small edifice of flint station on the Buntingford branch of the Great Eastern in the Early Pointed style, dating from about 1333, railway, 8 north-west from Bishop Stortford and I and consists of chancel and nave and a. small wooden 33 from London, in the Northern division of · turret at the west end containing one bell, bearing an the county, Albury petty sessional division, Edwins· inscription in Old English characters : in the chancel tree hundred, Bishop Stortford union and county , are mural monuments to Augnstus ~ud~. son of the court district, and in the rural deanery of Bunt- Rev. John Rndge Relton, rector of th1s par1~h, d. 1844;