THE MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS OF MIDDLESEX, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF ARMORIAL BEARINGS. HERELYETH THEBODYE OF WILLIAM GALE GENTSOMTJME MROFARTS IN OXFORD -WHO HAD TO "WIFE ANNE GALE THE DAUGHTER OF ROGERBRAGGE GENT AND HAD ISSVE BY HER 52 SONNES WILLIAM AND NICHOLAS YSAID NICHOLAS DECEASED BEFORE HIS FATHER Y ABOVE SAYD WILLIAM GALE DYED THE XXX DAYE OF MARCH AN°DNI IOI4BEINGE ABOVTTHEAGE OFFORTYE YEARES In the chancel of hadley church, Middlesex Presented to this work by Robert Hovenden, Esq. A COLLECTION OF CURIOUS AND INTERESTING EPITAPHS, COPIED FROM THE EXISTING MONUMENTS OF DISTINGUISHED AND NOTED CHARACTERS IN The Church and Churchyards OF HORNSEY, TOTTENHAM, EDMONTON, ENFIELD, FRIERN BARNET AND HADLEY, MIDDLESEX. BY FREDERICK TEAGUE CANSICK. LONDON: 1875- LONDON : PRINTED BY WERTHEIMER, LEA AND CO., CIRCUS PLACE, FINSBURY CIRCUS. Right Honourable THE EARL OF DUFFERIN, K.C.B., P.C., K.P., GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA, THIS VOLUME IS, WITH HIS LORDSHIP'S PERMISSION, Dedicated BY HIS OBLIGED AND HUMBLE SERVANT, FREDERICK TEAGUE CANSICK, 28, JEFFERY STREET, KENTISH TOWN, LONDON. PREFACE. lAVIl^G completed the third volume of *the sSries, I beg to return my grateful thanks to Miss Louisa Ince, J. R. Daniel-Tyssen, Esq., F.S.A., Carington Bowles Bowles, Esq., J.P., J. Meyer, Esq., J.P., and Robert Hovenden, Esq., for kindly presenting Illustrations to this volume. By desire, this and the future volumes will be published by private subscription. The next volume will contain "the important Inscriptions from the Churches and Churchyards in the City of London, It will greatly facilitate the issue of the remain­ ing volumes if those gentlemen who have not already given in their names for the whole series will do so as early as possible. INTRODUCTION. S. Mary's Church, Hornsey HE Church of S. Mary consists of a nave, chan­ T cel, aisles and galleries. The old church was built, about the year 1500, from the ruins of the fortress in the Bishops Park. It was a plain struc­ ture, with an embattled tower at the west end. It was rebuilt in 1832, except the tower. The earliest date of the parish register is 1653. The churchyard is kept in decent order, many of the tombstones having been unearthed by the present rector, who takes a pride in making the ground a credit to his church,. The following memorial windows are of stained glass :— In piam memoriam ELIZABETHAE FRANCISCAE HARVEY, Nat a. s. MDCCCXXXIV. Ob. a. s. MDCCCXLVII. To the Glory of God and in pious Memory of ANTHONY SOULBY, Decr. 20, 1831. MARY SOULBY, April 15, 1850. X Introduction. To the glory of God and in Saered Memory of EDWARD CHAPMAN, Esquire, He was born at Whitby, January 16, 1803, and fell asleep at his residence, Haringay House, Middlesex, March 22, 1869. " Looking unto Jesus, the-author and finisher of our faith." In Memory of HENRY ST. JOHN WALTON, Sergeant in the 13th Middlesex (Hornsey) Rifle Volunteers, who died on the 26th day of, November, 1866. This window is erected by Members of the Corps. To the glory of-God and in Memory of FREDERICK LEWIS LOSH, died November 21, 1863. In Memoriam CATHARINE BEVAN, Ob* Hid Martii 1862. To the glory of God in dear Memory of WILLIAM EADY, 1865. To their beloved mother from her sorrowing children. EMMA PRICE. Obt*. 12 September, 1869. Introduction. xi Highgate Chapel Burial Ground HIS chapel, which was dedicated to S. Michael, T was founded as a chapel-of-ease to the church at Hornsey, prior to ,1565, when Griridel, Bisnop of London, as lord of the manor of Hornsey and pro­ prietor of the chapel, granted it to Sir Roger Cholme- ley, late Lord Chief Justice, with gardens, orchards, and two acres of land. The chapel was taken down in 1833. In 1866 a new chapel was erected, attached .to the grammar school, in the crypt of which the tomb of S. T. Coleridge, the poet, is enclosed. Extracts from the register:— Honble. Dna. Judith Piatt, uxor Hugonis Piatt, militis sepult. Jan. 28, 1635, relict of Sir Hugh Piatt, author of "The Garden of Eden," "The Jewel-house of Art and Nature," and other curious works. William, son of Hester, Lady Manneringe, and Sir William Manneringe, Knt., buried July 29, 1646. Sir Richard Springnell, Bart, buried January 19, 1658. Sir William Springnell, Bart., buried September 8, 1691. Sir John Wollaston, Knt, buried in the chancel, April 20, 1658. He founded, in 1658, by bequest, almshouses for six poor women, and endowed them with a, rent-charge of £iS 10s. Charlotte, daughter of Sir John Pettis, buried May 28, 1678. xii Introduction. Sir Francis Pemberton, buried June 15, 1699, and Dame Ann, his wife, April 15, 1731. Mr. John Shower, of the parish of Stoke Newington, buried July 5, 1715. Sir Jeremy Topp, Bart., of Bremore, Hants, buried in the churchyard, 1733. The Rev. John Doughty, buried July 1, 1768. Edward Pauncefort, Esq., buried in 1723. In 1705 he ordered the communion plate to be double gilt at his own charge. William Bridges, Esq., in 1706 gave a new clock and surplice, and a common prayer book to the chapel. Sir Edward Gould, in June, 1712, gave a velvet pulpit cloth, and a cushion with a gold fringe. Mr. William Thatcher, senior, in 1713, gave a silver plate to collect the sacramental money in, and a surplice. Sir William Ashurst,in 1717, bought the organ, three branches, and two dozen sconces for the pews. Lady Pritchard gave by will 50s. yearly for ever, to be distri­ buted by the minister of the chapel to ten poor old maids of the Hamlet of Highgate, or widows when no old maids are to be ifound. The Lady Moyer, in J 720, gave the velvet cloth to the commu­ nion table. The Lady Child gave two common prayer books bound in velvet for the altar. Mr. John Scoppins gave a suite of fine damask linen for the altar. Mr. Edward Stanton paved the altar, with black and white marble at his own cost Introduction, xiii The communion plate were* two silver flagons given by Mrs. Savage, widow, one side chalice and cover, and one silver plate for the bread. The only brass in this chapel was one to the memory of Mrs. Jaques. All Saints Church, Tottenham HIS church, which is dedicated to All Saints, T stands about a quarter of a mile west of the high road, and is in the later style of English archi­ tecture, with a square embattled and ivy mantled tower. On the summit was formerly a lofty wooden cross (whence, according to some, the adjunct to the .name of the village), which was destroyed during the civil war. At the east end of the south aisle is a vestry of circular form* surmounted by a dome, erected in 1696 by Lord Henry Colerane, and repaired in 1790. Underneath this is the family vault. The eastern window, divided into eight compartments, and con­ taining representations of the Evangelists and, somq of the Prophets in fine old painted glass, was given to the parish in 1807 by John Eardley Wilmot, Esq. The font is curious and of great antiquity. Many ancie.nt monuments adorn the interior, of which one XIV Introduction. in white marble, to the memory of the family of Sir Robert Barkham, is worthy of notice; also one to the Candler family, which is finely carved. There are several brasses in this church. One to John Burrough, his wife, and three children ; to Lady Irby and her three children ; to the Hyming- ham Family ; to Thomas Wheler; to Jefrye Walk- dme ; and one to Dorcas Martin. Extracts from the register ;— Hugh Hare, buried March i, 1706-7. Father of the last Lord Colerane. The Right Hon. Henry Lord Colerane, buried July 15, 1708. The Hon. Dowager Lady Colerane, aged 90 years, buried January 19, 1731-2. The Right Hon. Henry Lord Colerane, August 10th, buried the 24th, 1749. The last Lord Colerane of this family. Sir George Rivers, Bart., buried August 9, 1734. The Rev. Samuel Hardy, buried December 17th, 1793, aged 73 years. William Wimpen, clerk of the parish, buried January 11, 1687. George Thompson, clerk and master of the grammar school, 50 years old, was buried November 21, 1739. Hugh Smithson, Esq., buried in the side chancel, September I3> J74o« The Hon. Constantine Smithson was buried April 28, 1726. Introduction. XV Mr. Anthony Smithson, son of Hugh Smithson, buried April 7, 1722. Mrs. Elizabeth Husbands was buried April, 1754, in the middle chancel, from whose executor was demanded and re­ ceived £4. 1 os., viz.—-£/\. for the breaking up the ground in my said middle chancel, and 10s. for performing the service on the occasion, and this from a full conviction that the register of this parish gave me an undoubted right to demand and receive the said fees. [This was written by the then Vicar of Tottenham.] Mr. Barkham Coney was buried in Sir Robert BarkhanVs vault, April 16, 1720. Madam Jane Barkham buried November 8, 1724. Madam Letia Beauchamp was buried in the church, March 21, 1719. Thomas Beauchamp, gent., buried June 23, 1724. William, son of Sir William Beauchamp, proctor (by Jane, his wife), buried May 2, 1759. Thomas Desdate, M.D., was buried in the chancel, May 8, 1727. Mrs. Constantia Portman was buried in Lord Colerane's vault, June 2, 1727. Mrs. Anne Morelli was buried August 28, 1720. Mrs. de Lay, a French gentlewoman, buried September 9, 1720. Mrs. Rebecca Mossett was buried November 16, 1720, who had a funeral sermon.