7 138 MARSH GIRBON. . [KELLY S • Cross William, butcher Jone!! William Jesse, Greyhound P.H Parker John ( exors. of), farmen Culley William, grocer Judge George (iMrs. ), farmer Parker Thomas, White Hart P.H Day Alexander, farmer Judge Thomas, machine owner Phipps Henry Thomas Fredk. farmel' Gough Rebecca (Miss), wheelwright Kilby John, farmer Phipps Arth. J. W. frmr. & landownr Harding James, boot & shoe maker King Henry, farmer Reading Room & Recreation Society Heath Harry, carpenter Lambourne Thomas, coal dealer ('Henry Bowden, hon. sec) Heritage Ira, machine owner, see May Samuel, farmer Stevens Sarah (·Mrs.), farmer Burgess & Heritage Medcraft Thomas, coal dealer Tompkins Elizabeth (Mrs.), Plough Heritage John, beer retailer Miller Henry John, farmer & land- inn & farmer Heritage Waiter, Swan P.H owner, Mason farm Tompkins Ric~d, farmer Heritage William, builder Parker Alfred, farmer, Leopold farm Tompkins Thomas, farmer Herring John, farmer Parker Frank, builder Tompkins Thomas, jun. blacksmith Jones David, farmer & landowner Parker George, farmer Tompkins William, grocer Jones William, baker Parker Jesse. baker Waddup Vincent, farmer is a parish and village, 3~ well as of the pilgrims who visited his shrine; th& -miles south from Winslow station, on the Oxford and well, which still exists, is fed by a spring rising on the Bletchley section of the London and North Western spot, and when filtered is beautifully clear, ·bright, an-d railway, 10 south-east from Buckingham and 7 north­ sparkling, from the quantity of free carbonic acid i~ west from , in the Northern division of the contains; an analysis made in 1868 by Dr. Bernays. county, hundred, Winslow petty sessional Professor of Chemistry at St. Thomas's Hospital. division and.union, Buckingham county court district, showOO. that one litre (1.76 pint) contained z.o81 rural deanery of Claydon, archdeaconry of Buckingham grammes of salts, which, on being boiled, deposited and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary, stand­ 0.307 grammes of lime carbonate, with a minute tra.c& ing on an eminence, is an edifice of stone, consisting of magnesia and iron carbonate; in addition, one litr~ of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, south of the water contained: chlorine o.oz]6, sulphurie­ porch and an embattled western tower of the Decorated acid o. 1354, silica o.oi8o, lime o.0142 and magnesia period containing a clock and ' bells: the original style o.ogoo ·grammes; somewhat more than l gramme of of the church seems to have been Early English, but lime-sulphate (gypsum) and magnesia-sulphate (Epsom the whole of the south side is Decorated, with a salts) with magnesium chloride; the remaining salts hagioscope, and a piscina and a triple sedilia in the are potash and soda carbonate. The poor's- allotments south wall: the chancel, a fine specimen of Perpen­ consist of about 12 acres, held in trust by trustees dicular work, is said to have ·been built from the appointed by the Parish Cauncil and others; "The offerings of pilgrims who frequented the tomb or shrine Clock Land," of about 14 acres, is held by the vicar of the famous rector, Sir John Schorne, and has and six elected trustees; these lands produce £20 misereres: above the vestry is a chamber said to have yearly, which is applied to the maintenance of the anciently been used by the priest whose duty it was church and the repair of the clock, and also toward~ to watch the shrine, for which purpose a rectangular general church expenses and the relief and sustentation opening has been made through the north chancel wall ; of the poor of North ·Marston. The chief landowners: from this upper chamber a spiral stair gives access to are Lord Cottesloe, certain colleges in the University the roof : on the north side of the chancel was buried of Oxford, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Mrs. Brazier. John Virgin, vicar 1694, and above is a hand and Mr. H. J. Holden, the trustees of .Mr. R. Tattam and inscription, indicating his grave: here also is a brass the vicar. The soil is loam and clay ; subsoil, clay. The to Richard Sanders, 1602, and an inscription to the greater part of the land is in pasture. The chief crops wife of John Sanders, 1615: the reredos and stained are wheat and beans. The area. is 1,983 acres, which east window were erected by Her late Majesty Queen are tithe free; rateable value, £3,283; and the popula­ Victoria in memory of John Campden' Neild esq. who tion in 1901 was 524 in the civil and 5Bo in the eccle­ left Her Majesty his property amounting to about siastical parish. £25o,ooo: the chancel was also restore-d 'by Her Parish Clerk, Reuben Cheshire. Majesty at a cost of £3,000; ip commemoration of the Jubilee year of Her Majesty's reign (1887), the church Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A. was fitted with new warming apparatus at a cost of & I. Office. Alfred E. Cheshire, sub-postmaster. £xoo, and reseated and otherwise improved at a further Letters arrive through Winslow at 7.40 a.m. & 12.4() cost of £100 defrayed by the vicar: and in the Diamond p.m.; sundays, 7-40 a.m. ; dispakhed, 10 a.m. &. Jubilee year (1897) a new pulpit was erected, at a cost 4.25 p.m. & on sundays, u.so a.m of £6o: there are 300 sittings, The register of Schorne School, named after Sir John Schorne above­ baptisms dates from t.he year 1639; burials from the mentioned, is an educational jnstitution for roo boys. year 1724, and marriages 1725. The living is a founded in the year r876 by the present. vicar, wh() vicara.ge, net yearly value £r9o, with residence, in the acts as warden. The present master has added a. gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and held since large gymnasium, a reading & recreation room & 11 rB69 by the Rev. Samuel Benjamin Ja.mes D.D. of library; Charles McKee Wright M.A. of Glasgow Trinity CollegE', Dublin. The Wesleyan chapel here, University, head master, with five assistant masters built in I 864, affords 200 sittings ; the Primitive Metho­ Elementary School (mixed), founded in rB37, for 130 dist chapel, enlarged in r872, has 300 sittings. Sir children; average attendance, 89; Percival Bridge­ John Schorne, rector here about 1290, was greatly water, master; Mrs. Pyle, infants' mistress venerated by the people, and after his death was re­ Carriers to:- garded as a saint; and the place, it is said, became populous and flourishing both on account of the num­ Aylesbury. J osiah Gregory, wed. & sat bers who resorted to a well which he had blessed, as Winslow.-William Ward, daily

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Wyrall Reginald Everard (assistant Gregory George, dairyman master), Schorne school & Bank Gregory Rohert, baker Biggs Thomas Side cottage Henley Mark, shopkeeper Cherel Georges (french master), Holden Henry John & Sons, tailors COMMERCIAL. Schorne school Holden Wm.Edgar,farmer, Brook frm Deignan Michael (assistant master), Anstiss Hy. Jas. Armed Yeoman P.H Kibble Edwin, dairy farmr. Glebe h~ Schorne school Anstiss James E. farmer Pipkin George, Wheatsheaf P.H Hamilton James, The Hollies Bake.r-- Denchfield, butcher Schorne School (Rev. Samuel Benj_ James Rev. Samuel Benjamin D.D. Biggs Thos. dairy frmr.Marston fields James D.D. warden; Chas. McKew (vicar, & warden of Schorne Buckingham Hy. Jas. dairy farmer Wright M. A., _F.R.H.S. head mast) school), Vicarage Chapman Ralph,dairy frmr.Manor fm Seaton James, boot maker Rose Fernley E. M.(assistant master), Che~hire Alfred, shopkpr. Post office Tattam Alfred, grazier Schorne school Clarke Harry, farmer Tattam William, assistant oversoor Spry Gilbert (assistant master), Cox Thomas Rcdding, shopkeeper Tompkins Fleet, bqt-cher Schorne school Dudley Edward Lawrence, carpenter Ward Tom, carpenter Tattam Miss, Marston house Franklin Albert, grocer Watkins Charles Edward, farmer Wright Cha!!. McKee M.A., F.R.H.S. Garner James, Bell inn Watkins James, baker head master of Schorne school Gregory Arthur Amos, beer retailer White John, iron fence, impl£>ment Gregory Eli, farmer maker & blacksmith M:ARSWORTH (or Masworth) is a parish and vil­ we5t from lvinghoe and 7t south-east from Aylesburyr lage on the Herts border, 2! miles south from Ched­ in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Cottesloe. dington Junction station on the 'London and North Linslade petty sessional divio;ion, union of Berkhamsted. Western railway, 2i north-we~t from Tring, ~ south- countv- court district- of AYlesburv,. . rural deanerr of