her neck, her hair nicely dressed out, & her head lying on 2 cushions, with the Cecil crest of a garb between 2 lyons rampant at her feet. Her clothes are painted black, & his armour painted & gilt, & both figures in a recumbent supplicating posture, very well executed for the age they were done in. On the side & ends of the tomb are the statues of 10 children in marble on their knees, painted & gilt. At the head are 2 females, full grown, & a child. On the front are 6, 3 men & 3 women. The 1st son in armour, & a death's head by him;" the 2 others in short cloakes, & the 3 ladies in stiffened collars, hair dressed out, with farthingales; at the foot is a child with a death's head in its hand, a female. All the children's habits are painted black. Above this tomb is erected against the wall a sort of canopy, supported by 2 black marble Corinthian pillars: the whole richly painted, carved, & gilt. On the top, under a death's head with gilded wings, & between 2 pyramidal obelisks of white marble, is a round figure which surrounds a shield of 6 quarters for Allington.

These, as drawn in the Church Notes, are, 1. Alington; 2. Argentine: 3. Fitz Tek; 4. Gardener; 5. Midleton x; and 6. Alington. On the helmet above it is placed the crest, viz. a Talbot passant Ermine. Immediately under this coat, on a freize, is another plain sheild having the 6 coats of Allington impaling the single coat of Cecil. On the said freize, & on each side of the firstnamed coat of Allington, near the 2 obelisks, are also 2 other coats in ornamented shields; that on the right hand has the 6 quarters of Allington singly; and on the other side the 6 quarters of Cecil Earl of Exeter.

These, as drawn in the Church Notes, are, 1. Cecil; 2. Party per pale Azure and Gules, a lion ramp. Argent, holding a [tree uprooted Proper] for [Winston]; 3. Sa. a Plate between 3 towers Argent for [Carlion]; 4. Argent, on a bend cotised Gules 3 roses Or, for Heckinton; 5. Argent, a chevron between 3 chess rooks Ermine, for Walcot; 6 Cecil.

"The paint and gilding are almost entirely obliterated; the figures were so covered with green mould that, in removing the latter, but little was left of the former; four of the children were composed of clunch stone, and were so mutilated as not to be worth preserving' Inf. Inc.

"In his hands.

He was not entitled to quarter Midleton, being descended from the first wife Ursula Drury.

Under this canopy is a marble arch, & under that in the wall. is fixed a table of black marble, within a frame of white marble, with this inscription:

transitory life ye 10th of No

vember 1613, to whose dear memory her sor-
rowfull husband, myndfull of

his owne mortality, erected

this monument.2

I shall send under another cover the pedigree of Allington, according to promise; and when I was at Horseth I took an exact catalogue of all the pictures there, as well as this Lord could inform me; for he told me the hands, most of which I had

▾ There is an admirable portrait of him by Cornelius Janssen, from which the engraving in Lodge's Lives of the Cæsars was made, now in the possession of H. L. Long, Esq. of Hampton Lodge, Surrey, descended from Catharine the fourth daughter.

Sir Giles did penance at Paul's Cross, and at St. Mary's, Cambridge, in 1631, besides being fined £12,000, by sentence of the Archbishop and the High Commission Court, for having married his niece. Much error has arisen on this subject. Clutterbuck, in his History of Herts, makes the son Giles, who died at twelve years of age, a knight, and attributes the penance to him, besides giving him issue of the marriage. Lodge, in his Lives of the Cæsars, does the same, stating that he had three children. The facts, which have been established by the researches of C. G. Young, Esq. York Herald, are as follow:

Sir Giles was married 2dly Dec. 2, 1630, at West Wratting (the seat of her father) to Dorothy, daughter of Michael Dalton, the eminent lawyer. Her mother was Mary, the daughter of Edward Elrington, Esq. by Margaret, the daughter of Sir John Spencer, and relict of Sir Giles Alington's father. She was therefore niece only by the half-blood; and they seem to have dealt him somewhat hard measure. His children were all, as is shown by the monument and register, the issue of the first marriage.

forgot. &c. &c.

This catalogue a shall come under the same cover,"

The remainder of this letter relates to other matters, and is therefore omitted.b

At the foot of this monument, on the N. wall hangs a fresh atchievem with these arms on it, viz. Argent, on a bend Sable 3 eaglets Or [for Ernle]; impaling the single coat of Allington.c Directly fronting this monument, on the N. side of the E. window, hangs an old atchievemt for a Lady Allington. Over the monument hang a couple of penons for the same family.d Betwn these 2 noble monuments, & at the feet of the rails of the altar, in the middle, lays a stone of very great antiquity, having a person in brass in compleat armour,e in a supplicant posture on it, wth a dog at his feet, wch makes me conclude that it belongs to some of the Allington family; but for whom particularly it is impossible to determine; for almost all the rest of the brass work, except the figure itself, wth a gothic sort of angel supporting a canopy over the head of the person on ye left side, & part of the label on the same side, wch formerly surrounded the whole stone, is torn away & lost. What remains on ye part of ye label wch is preserved is in French, wch alone proves its antiquity, & is no more yn this in old characters: "De Novemb' L'An De l' Incarnacion." The rest is gone, as are the 2 escutcheons that were formerly on each side of his head. On the right side of this marble is a freestone monumt, but without either brass or inscription. On the S. side at the foot of the great monument, directly under the hole in the wall for the water, lies, out of its place, a curious old peice of carved grey marble of seeming

→ This catalogue is given in vol. vii. p. 223 of the MSS.

The reply to this letter will be found in Walpole's Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 476, dated Dec. 6, 1763, in which he says, "I am glad for the tomb's sake and my own, that Sir Giles Allington's monument is restored," &c. "The pedigree of Allington, I had from Collins before his death, but I think not so perfect as yours." c Elizabeth, widow of Charles Lord Seymour of Trowbridge, and daughter of William first Lord Alington, remarried Sir John Ernle, Chancellor of the Exchequer. She died in 1691. There is a portrait of her at Petworth.

d Both achievements and pennons are now gone. Inf. Inc.

e This is a very fine brass of the time of Edward III. He has the basinet and camail of that period; a handsome girdle from which his sword is suspended, and the armour of the thighs is ornamented with studs. It is supposed to represent Sir John de Argentine, who died in 1382, great-nephew to Sir Giles, who fell at Bannockburn. The length of the figure is 4 feet 3 inches.

great antiquity. These monuments are divided off from the rest of the chancel by an iron rail to preserve them; & on each side of the door of these rails, as you ascend this part of the chancel, are the crests of the Allingtons & the Cecils; wch discover that it was divided by that Sir Giles Allington who lies buried on the north side. Without these rails, on the S. side by the chancel door, lies a blewish marble slab, with a figure of a priest in his sacerdotal habit, with a label coming frō his mouth, & an inscription at his feet, the brass of wch is torn away, so we can only conjecture that it belongs to some former rector of this parish, some hundred years since. Immediately as you enter the chancel lies an old grey marble slab wth ye arms of Allington on each side of the head still remaining; that on the left side impales some other, but it lying so under every body's feet, that it is now not intelligible; and in the middle of the stone lie 2 personages, a man & a woman; he in armour, & at their feet a plate for an inscription: all wch is gone, except the 2 aforsd escutcheons wch have this particular to them, that they have each 10 billets with ye bend.h Directly at the foot of this lies another blewish marble slabi of so much the same dimensions as the other, viz. abt 7 feet long, having a man on it in brass, compleat except the head, in a lawyer's habit. The brass for the inscription at the feet is torn away, but the arms on the left side sufficiently demonstrate to whom it belongs. That on the right side has the 4 usual quarterings for Allington, with this difference, however, that the bend is between 12 billets, wth a label of 3 points for difference. On the other side the same 4 quarterings impaling Coniesbye; wch informs us that it belongs to Robert Allington, son of Sir Giles, who died in 1552,k & of whom mention is made at the foot of the great south tomb. Under the north wall, & close to the rails wch divide the chancel, lies an exceeding antient stone, wch formerly had the figure of a woman on it, but now nothing remains but the brass at the feet of her,

"It is still in the same place, but a few years ago I laid an oaken floor over the whole space within the altar rails, and so covered it. I also took away the iron rail to give more room to the school children, and by the Archdeacon's recommendation, who advised me to advance the altar rails." Inf. Inc.

No brass now remaining. Inf. Inc.

"Now under the chancel seats, having been displaced, in consequence of their interference with the laying of the pavement." Inf. Inc.

*He was grandson of that Sir Giles.

wch is quite plain & legible, being so near the wall, that no feet could come very well at it to damage it; it has this inscription in old characters:

"Hic jacet Johaña Alyngton soror et una heredū Joħis Argentein, filii Joħis filii Wiltm Argentein militis que obiit xvo die Maij Ao Dñi Mo CCCCo xxixo."1

On a part of the brass label wch formerly surrounded it, are still these words remaining in Gothic letters: "Ut misericordia et...." Directly over this is a good neat mural monumt of stone, for one of the Rectors of this parish, carv'd, &, for the time, handsomely painted & gilt. Over the inscription is a Gothic sort of pyramidal stone work, & on each side of it 2 large Church Bibles in stone, painted & gilt also: in the middle is this inscription in gold letters on a peice of black marble:

"Depositũ Thomæ Wakefield 37 annos Ecctie hujus Rectoris, nec non Judithæ uxoris ejus, quibus parentavit Filius Thomas, qui patri in hac Rectoria successit. Ao Dñi 1627.”

On the same wall, & very near this last to the west, is another neat mural monument of black & white marble, for another of the Rectors of this Church, and on a peice of black marble this inscription:

" M. S. Here under interr'd lieth the body of William Eedes, A.M. late Rector of this parish of Horseheathe, who departed this life the 23d day of April, Anno Dom 1709, aged 68."

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Over it are 3 white marble urnes with gilt flames: one larger & 2 smaller on each side of it. Close by this hangs a sword & buckler of the late John Bromley, Esq. Lord of the manor; the sword in a scabbard of black velvet, & on the buckler the Bromley's arms, viz. Quarterly per fess dancetté Gules & Or, with an escutcheon of pretence over it, viz. Argent, a griffon rampant Vert, for [part of the coat of Bromley]. Over this hang the crest, viz. a demy-lion Sable, issuing out of a ducal coronet Or, holding a flag Gules, with a lion passant Or; wth the helmet, sash of black velvet, a surtout having the arms blazoned on it. Over these hang 4 penons or flags wth the following arms on them; the 1st Bromley, wth ye escutcheon of pretence, im

One half of this is loose in the Vestry. Inf. Inc.

The swords, pennons, &c. are gone; but two helmets remain.