800 BRENT PELHAM. . [ KELLY'S time (1598) traces remained of the destroyed buildings. parish by the Mercers' Company of London under the gift The church of St. Mary is a building of flint in the Early of Francis Floyer esq. 1678. A sum of £200 was given by English st)'le and consists of chancel and nave, south Mrs. Catherine Floyer in 1758, the interest of which, porch and an embattled western tower with spire containing amounting to £6 IOS. yearly, is distributed during the 4 bells, the first two dated 1634, the third 1792 and the winter by the minister and churchwardens in bread and tenor 1637: in the north wall is a tomb reputed to be that coals to the poor of this parish. Mrs. Floyer also gave £100 of one Piers Shonks, a legendary hero of the IIth centnry, for repairing the church. Pelhams Hall, in the occupation who is said to have died in 1086 : it bears on the top a thick of Mrs. Hippsley, is the property of J oseph Gurney Barclay slab of Petworth marble on which are emblematical carvings esq. of Knott's Green, Leyton, who is lord of the manor ami. in relief: the tomb is no doubt old, but was evidently con- with Samuel George Smith esq. M.A., J.P. of SacombePark, structed many years after the period assigned to this famous Ware, almost the sole landowner. The soil is heavy; sub. dragon-slayer: there is a brass in the nave to Mary, wife of soil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, ba.rley and beans. Francis Floyer, ob. 1625, and Anne, his second wife. ob. The area is 1,636 acres; rateable value, £1,325 ; the popula.. 1627: an organ was placed in the chancel in 1885 : there tion in 1881 was 232. are 270 sittings, all being free. The register begins in 1538 Parish Clerk, James Sell. and the Visitation of 1297, mentioned under :Furneaux POST OFFlcE.-l::)amuel Lawrence, sub-postmaster. Letters Pelham, includes this church also. The liring, united to arrive through at a.30a.m. &; 3.30p.m. ; dis· that of Furneaux Pelham, is a discharged vicarage, joint patched at 5.30 p.m. On sundays there is no delivery or gross yearly value £360, in the gift of the Bishop of St. dispatch. The nearest money order office is at Hare Albans, and held since 1876 by the Re\'. Francis Randolph street, Great , & nearest telegraph office is at V.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, who resides at Buntingford. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Furneaux Pelham: the Rev. Frt'derick Mills Garrett is National School (mixed), built in 1840, for 60 children j curate in charge and resides at Brent Pelham parsonagoe. average attendance, 25; & has an endowment of £1 An annuity of £12 IOS. IOd. for bread is payable to this 12S. 6d. yearly; Miss Edith Camp, mistress Garrett Rev. Frederick Mills [curate in Barltrop Jsph. farmer, Down Hall farm. LawrenceSl.carpenter &grocer,Post offi charge], Parsonage Budford M. (Mrs.), Black Hall farm Sell James, shoe maker Hippsley Mrs. Pelham hall Burton Robert W. farmer, Hall farm Tinworth Thomas, Black Horse P.R. & COMMERCIAL. Caton William, grocer bricklayer Banham David, farm bailiff to S. G. Funston Ebenezer,blacksmth.&wheelwt Watson George, farmer, Bury farm Smith esq. Beeches farm • FURNEAUX PELHAM is a parish and village, 8 The living is a vicarage, consolidated with that of 13rent miles north.west from Bishop's Stortford, 4 north-east from Pelham, joint gross yearly value £360, with residence, in the station on the Buntingford branch of the Great gift of the Bishop of St. Albans, and held since 1876 by the Eastern railway and si east-south-east from Buntingford, Rev. Francis Randolph M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. in the Northern division of the county, Edwinstree hundred, Here are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels. Alburypetty sessional division, Bishop's Stortford union and Caryl's charity of £72S. 8d. yearly, left in 1774 by Francis coonty court district and in the rural deanery of Buntingford Caryl, is for bread, and an annual dividend of £3 IS. 8d. and archdeaconryand diocese of St. Albans. The church of arising from a bequest of Sarah Yarrington, who died in St. Mary the Virgin is a building of fliDt and stone, in the 1746, is applied towards a fund for apprenticing poor boys. Early English and Perpendicular styles, and consists of chan- Furneaux Pelham Hall, the seat of Felix Calvert esq. J.P. is eel, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch with parvise, and a fine old structure in the Elizabethan style, situated on the an embattled western tower containing a clock and 6 bells, west side of the village. The trustees of the late G. Shaw of whi<:h the third, cast before the Reformation, bears the esq. and John Wiblin esq. are lords of the manor. The inscription, in black letter, ",sanda ~lttltrina. -lrrll.pro nobis;" principal landowners are Felix Calvert esq. J.P. John Bow· the others are dated respectively, 1723, 1662,1618 and 1792 j man esq. and Henry Sworder esq. of . The the tenor weighs 11 cwt. : in the chancel are sedilia and pis- soil is mixed; subsoil, clay and chalk. The principal crops cina, also a lancet-headed aumbry and a staircase and door are wheat and barley. Here are a brewery and maltings, leading to the rood-loft: there are two other piscinre at the and bricks and drain pipes are made in the neighbourhood. eastern ends of the aisles: at the east end of the south aisle The area is 2,585 acres; rateable value, £3,2II ; the popula. is a chapel built by Robert Newport, who died in 1518 and tion in 1881 was 571. whose brass,witheftigies of himself and his wife Mary (Alling- WHITE BARNS is three quarters of a mile north; EAST ton), is in the nave: in the chapel is a fine but mutilated END, a mile and a half east, close to Essex; and PATIENT brass, representing a male and a female figure habited in the END, three quarters of a mile south. costume of Richard n. time and conjectured to represent Parish Clerk, Thomas Lawrence. John de la Lee, ob. 1370, and Joanna his wife: in the south- east corner of the chapel is an altar-tomb to Edward Cason POST OFFICE.-William Hawkes Mumford, receiver. Letters of the Middle Temple, ob. 9th September, 1624; there is a through Bunting-ford, arrive at 7.~0 a.m.; dispatched at bra!J8 inscription to John Newport esq. son of preceding: 1.15 & 6 p.m. on week days & 9 a.m. on sundays. There here also are three stone coffins, disinterred when the church is a midday delivery about 1.15. The nearest money was repaved; one of these bears on the lid the inscription, order office is at Hare street, Great Hormead &; telegraph ,. Simonis de Furneux filius: " fragments of another ancient office at Buntingford. Postal orders are issued here, but tomb have been, for preserntion, built into the wall under not paid the east window: there are 350 sittings, all being free. The National School, erected in 1874, for 130 children; average register dates from IS38, and there exists a. record of a Visita- attendance, 75 ; it has an endowment of £9 yearly, from a tion in the year 1297, which ginlS a eomplete account of the bequest of Mary Wheatley in 1724 ; Miss Jane E. Endersby, furniture, books and vestments of the church at that date. mistress Abbott Alfred S Chippcrfield Alfred, blacksmith, & Yew Reed Charles, shoe maker Acres Thomas Tree inn Reed Hannah (Mrs.), shoe maker Calvert Felix J.P. Furneaux Pelham hall Glasscock Thomas, farm bailiff to Felix Rule John, farm bailiff to J. C. Bowman Griffith Patrick Gill . Calvert esq. J.P. Duck street esq. Hexham hall Muter Col. Charles Whitebarns Griffith Patrick Gill L.R.c.p.Edin. Savill David, shoe maker Pottrell Edward, King's farm surgeon, & medical officer & public Savill William, beer retailer, East end Pottrell John C. Hill house vaccinator, Pelham district, Bishop's Snow Wtlliam, farm bailiff to the exors. Randolph Rev. }<'rancis M.A. Vicarage Stortford union &4th district Saffron of John Acres, Patient end Scmby Mrs. Pelham lodge Walden union Thurgood John, farm bailiff to Edward Jackson Emma (Mrs.), Brewery Tap P.H Pigg esq. of Pope's hall, Chipping COMMERCIAL. Lawrence Joseph, carpenter Buckland Bayford ehas. shopkpr. B{lrleycroft end Mumford Wm. H.grcr.drpr.& post office Uncle Ed\1'ard, White Lion P.H Bowman Martha (Miss), shopkeeper, Pottrell Edward, farmer & landowner, Walker Wllliam, beer retailer, East end East end King''! farm Wootten George, farmer, East end Bray George, farmer, East end Pottrell J. C.farmr.& landowner,Hill ho Wootton C. farmer. PatmoreLodge farm Bray Thomas, farmer, East end Rayment & Co. brewers & maltsters Wright Geo. millwrigbt &beer retailer Cakebread Thos. shopkeeper, East end (A. S. Abbott, man.), Pelham brewry Wright Thos. beer retlr. Barleycroft end STOCKING PELHAMis a parish and village, situated archdeaconry and diocese of St. Albans. The church of St. on the Essex border, si miles north-east from Braughing Mary is a small edifice of flint in the Early Pointed style, station on the Buntingford branch of the GreatEastern rail- dating from about 1333 and consists of chancel and nave and way, and 8 north-west from Bishop's Stortford, in the North- a small wooden turret at the west end containing one bell em division of the county, Albury petty sessional division, bearing an inscription in Old English characters: in the chan­ Edwinstree hundred, Bishop's StortfcJrd union and county' eel are mural monuments to Augustus Rudge, son of the court district, and in the mral deanefy of Bunting-ford and I Rev. John Rudge Relton, rector of this parish, d. 1844; and