166 GREAT HORMEAD. HERTFORDSHIRE. · (KELLY'S ' Hendry Henry, painter HARE STREET. Choldcroft Fanny (Mrs.), asst. oversr Hendry Herbert, antique dealer Benson Very Rev. Mgr. Robert Hugh Choldcroft William Waiter, Three Oyler John Benjamin, farmer & fruit (Catholic), Hare Street house Jolly Butchers P.H grower, Hormead hall. · T N 8 Hammond Mark, Wedlands Hammond Mark, coal mer. Wedlands Buntingford Hargreaves Mendelssohn Howlett. John, farmer .. Prutton Wm. Patrick, comcl. travellr Lyall Miss Laughton Peter, farmer, Bradbmy fm Scheuber Louis, dairyman Moore Charles, Girton house Main John, Bell P.H Stewart John William, miller (wind) COMMERCIAL. Moule Fred, baker, Post office Thorogood Reuben, builder Bedford George William, shopkeeper Thorogood Thomas, builder Weir AndreVI", farmer, Bury farm Bentley William Henry, carpenter Totman Wm. farmer, Ashdown farm Wilson George Chapman, grocer, Bradbrook Rt. poultry frmr. Clock ho Williams John, farmer, Brick house draper &; dealer in clothing, boots Britton Charles J. farmer Wilson George & Son, wheelwrights & hardware Chapman Charles, shoe maker Wilson George Chapman, dairyman

1 Chapman Emily (Mrs.), shopkeeper Wisbey Ernest William, beer retailer 1 1 Charles Thomas, marine store dealer ' LITTLE HORMEAD is a village and parish near had enriched himself in 1797 with a large sum of the Cambridge road and on the river Quin, which flows money (about [,2,ooo), contained in two saddle bags through the parish, 3l miles east from Buntingford ter­ discovered by him in a ditch and supposed to be the minal station and 9i south from Royston, in the North­ proceeds of a robbery committed by highwaymen who ern division of the county, Edwinstree hundred, Bunting­ formerly infested the neighbourhood: the money is ford union and petty sessional division, Royston county now applied in accordance with the provisions of a court district, and in the rural deanery of Buntingford new scheme, and is distributed in coal and money and archdeaconry and diocese of St. Albans. The church at the discretion of the trustees at Christmas. The ·of St. Mary is a small and ancient building of stone rent of the town acre is distributed in bread to the :apparently erected during the early part of the 12th cen­ poor. Mrs. William Thomas Rayment Pa.tten is lady -tury and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a of the manor; William Thomas Rayment ·Fatten esq. ,. turret at the west end containing 2 bells : the most of Little Hormeadbury, Joseph Reed Russell esq. of - interesting feature in the church is a Norman doorway, W estmill Bury, W estmill, the provost 1md fellows of · on the north side of the nave, the door itself affording a King's College, Cambridge, and Trinity Hall, Cam­ ' fine specimen of early wrought iron ornament: a south bridge, are the principal landowners. The soil is mixed, - window in the chancel is a memorial to Robert Hasell principally heavy; subsoil, chiefly clay. The chief crops Newell, 39 years rector of the parish, d. 1852; there are wheat, barley and beans. The area is 1,062 acres · is· another to Nathan Warren, 1862: there are 70 sit­ of l:tnd and 3- of water; rateable value, £967; the tings. The register dates from the year 1582. The population in I9II was 104- · · living is a rectory, annexed by an Order in Council in Letters through Buntingford, Herts, via Great Hormead 1887 to the vicarage of Great Hormead, joint net yearly Post Office. Hare Street is the nearest money order · value £280, in the gift of St. John's College, Cambridge, office. Great Hormead, 1 mile distant, is the nearest and held 8ince 1913 by the Rev. Francis Garden Mitchell telegraph office M.A. of that college, who resides at Great Hormead. · -The charities amount to £48 yearly, being the interest Wall Letter Box, cleared at 1.55 &; 6.30 p.m. week days · of money bequeathed to the parish in the year 1823 onlv• ·by John Wall Porter, whose father, a farm labourer, The children of this IJlace attend Great HormB>Bd School Patten William Thomas Rayment, PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMllERCIAL. farmer, Little Hormeadbury & Hare • 1Gifford Lady, Glebe house Cook John, farm bailiff to William Street farm Kitchen William Charles Thomas Patten esq Stephens William John, farm bailiff How John S. farmer, Mutfords to Joseph Reed Russell esq. Stone­ bury HUNSDON is a parish and village, 3 miles north from lady; he died April, l.617; the tomb is built into the wall Boydon station on the Cambridge section and 3 east and inclosed by an iron railing with good wrought iron from St. Margaret's station on the Hertford branch of finials; at the back of the recess is a long inscription, but the Great Eastern railway, 7 east from Hertford and 5 without date : in the chancel is a tomb to Sir Thomas eouth-east from Ware, in the Eastern division of the Forster, knighted at Whitehall, 7 July, r6o4, ob. 1612: county, Braughing hundred, Ware union and petty ses­ the font is that at which Queen Elizabeth stood sponsor, sional division, Hertford county court district, and in the in 1575, to one of Lord Hunsdon's daughters, and the rural deanery of Ware and archdeaconry and diocese of pulpit was preached from on several occassions by Bishop : St. Albans. The parish extends to the Stort on the Essex Ridley: the church was renovated in 1851 and has 203 ' border. A. small but nameless stream rises near Hunsdon sittings, of which so are free. The register dates from .Street. The church of St. Dunstan, built about the the year 1546, and contains records of Queen Elizabeth middle of the 15t·h century, is a small structure of flint, having twice stood sponsor in the church, in 1575 and · :in the Early Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, r584. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £231, with north aisle, nave, mortuary chapel, nHunsdon House, which is close to the property and residence of Ernest Ward Thomas -the church; much of this glass has disappeared, but esq. is a gabled mansion standing in park-like grounds there still remains in the head of the east window the ol about So acres. Briggens, the property and resi­ _<\nnunciation of Our Lady and Our Lord in glory adored dence of the Hon. Herbert Cokayne Gibbs M . .1. occupies by saints: in the chancel windows are several white a prominent position about ~~ miles south from. the roses of York and two fetterlocks, also a badge of that village, and stands in beautifully wooded grounds of house, besides four canopies, which no doubt once sur­ over so acres. Hunsdon House, the property of Edmund mounted figures of saints : in the west window are Charrington , esq. and the residence of Mrs. Mont­ figures of six apostles and other fragments : there is a gomerie, was originallv built by Sir John Oldhalle - . ' brass imcription to William Gray, ob. 1517, and in the in 1447, and had then a courtyard 8o by 24 ft. and a chancel is a brass with P-ffigoy- in shroud and inscription tower roo feet in height; within a century it became to Margaret, wife of John Shelley, citizen and mercer of the property of Henry VIII. who erected here a palace,. London, ob. 1495: on the north wan of the nave is a to which he frequently resorted, and which was used singular brass to .Tames Gray, for 35 years park and during his reign as a residence for his children: here, housekeeper at Hunsdon House, ob. 1591, representing a too, the unfortunate Henry, Earl· of Surrey K.G. huntsman shooting at a deer with a crossbow and a executed 21 January, 1547, first met the Lady Elizabeth figure of Death standing between them and striking both Fitzgerald, celebrated in his sonnets as "Geraldine." with a dart : in the chapel on the south side. erected The shell of the existing building is supposed to be about 16oo by Sir John Cary knt. afterwards third original work, and the cellars, a grained ceiling and :Baron Hun!'don, and separated from the chancel by two Jacobean chimney pieces also remain to illustrate[ a Jacobean screen of carved oak, is his tomb with its formf'r characteristic features; otherwise tb recumbent figures of himself and Mary (Hyde) his exterior has been modernised, the moat filled up,