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 EA8E1.ET CHOBCH, 0XF0RD8HIEE. 
 
SOME REMARKS 
 
 UPON THE 
 
 CHURCH OF GREAT HASELEY, 
 
 OXFORDSHIRE. 
 
 READ AT A MEETING OF THE OXFORD SOCIETY FOR PRO.VIOTING THE 
 STUDY OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, NOVEMBER 19, 1839, 
 
 TOGETHEU WITH 
 
 E.XTRACTS FROAI DELAFIELD’S MS. IN THE BODLEIAN 
 LIBRARY, ENTITLED “ NOTITIA HASLEIANA.” 
 
 SECOND EDITION. 
 
 OXFORD : 
 
 PUnUSlIED FOR THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE STUDY OF 
 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, 
 
 BY JOHN HENRY BARKER. 
 
 M DCCCXI.Vm 
 
The Society desire it to be understood that they are not answerable, 
 as a body, for any facts, reasonings, or opinions, advanced in papers 
 printed by them. 
 
 OXFORD : 
 
 PRINTED BY I. SIIRIMPTON. 
 
ADVERTISEMENT 
 
 TO THE FIRST EDITION. 
 
 The following “ Remarks” were read at a meet- 
 ing of tlie Oxford Society for promoting the study 
 of Gothic Architecture on the 19th of November, 
 1839. They are now printed by desire, and for 
 the use of the members of the Society. It will be 
 perceived that but little alteration has been made 
 since their delivery, as it has been thought expe- 
 dient to deviate as little as possible from that 
 simple form in which the paper was first presented 
 to their notice. 
 
 Considerable additions have however been made. 
 These have for the most part been thrown into an 
 Appendix, and for them the “ Paper” is indebted 
 to the MS. History of the Parish of Hascley, 
 written about the year 1740 by the Rev. Mr. 
 Delafield, and which is now preserved in the 
 Bodleian labrary. 
 
IV 
 
 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE 
 
 In Brewer’s “ Beauties of England and Wales,” 
 vol. xii. part 2, the following notice occurs of Mr. 
 Delafield. “ This writer was born at Haseley in 
 1690, of humble parents, and was sent to the 
 village Free School among the other poor children 
 of the parish. There was then no house appro- 
 priated to the master, and the boys were taught 
 in the church. In play hours he improved him- 
 self in reading, by conning the inscriptions on 
 the tombs ; and thus originated a love for anti- 
 quities. lie afterwards was put to school at Great 
 Milton, where he collected an account of the suc- 
 cessive rectors and curates of that parish. In 
 1717, after having vainly attempted to obtain the 
 Mastership of Haseley Free School, he com- 
 menced a private academy on a limited scale. 
 He was subsequently blaster of the School at 
 Stoke nchurch ; and having entered into Holy 
 Orders, became Curate of Fingest, Bucks, and 
 Vicar of Great Milton. 
 
 “ He compiled a History of Haseley, which, if 
 printed, would make about one quarto volume. 
 
 “ His papers were })urchascd by the late Mr. 
 Gough, and are now in the Bodleian Library. 
 
FIRST EDITION. 
 
 V 
 
 “ He appears to have possessed invincible in- 
 dustry ; but he was unfortunate in having selected 
 a subject of very limited interest.” 
 
 Since the MS. account of the Parish of Ilaseley 
 thus owed its compilation to a pure love of anti- 
 quity, and to a feeling of attachment to the place 
 of his birth, we have every reason to place confi- 
 dence in the historical notices connected with the 
 Manor, &c., which Mr. Delafield has handed down 
 to us, and by which much light has been thrown 
 upon the early history of the church. 
 
 T. W. WEARE. 
 
 Christ Church, Oxford, 
 June 18, 1840. 
 
A 1) V E R T I S E M E N 
 
 TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
 
 It is with no little reluctance that the writer of 
 the following “ Remarks,” &c., has acceded to the 
 request of the Coniinittee to send forth a second 
 edition. The account of llaseley church was origi- 
 nally drawn up for the purpose of being read at one 
 of the earliest meetings of the 0.\ford Architectural 
 Society, at a time when the Society numbered com- 
 paratively very few members, and the subject of 
 ecclesiastical architecture was in a great degree a 
 new one, especially amongst the undergraduate 
 members of the University, for whose especial 
 advantage, amongst other objects, the “ O.xford 
 Society for promoting the Study of Gothic Archi- 
 tecture” was established. 
 
 During the last few years, however, a great 
 change has taken place, both with regard to the 
 circumstances of the Society and the general dif- 
 fusion of architectural knowledge. The 0.vford 
 Architectural Society, from a small beginning, has 
 expanded into one of the most numerous and in- 
 
vm 
 
 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE 
 
 fluential bodies in the country ; and from the 
 example first exhibited at Oxford in 1838», it may 
 be truly said, an imjmlse was given to the study of 
 ecclesiastical architecture, which has since led to 
 the foundation of the many societies, with similar 
 or kindred objects, which at present exist through- 
 out the country ; and all of which (though inde- 
 pendent each in its own sphere) may now be con- 
 sidered to be in union, as corresjionding bodies, 
 with each other, and with the one large and central 
 society established in the metropolis, the Arcliai- 
 ological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 
 
 It is felt therefore that the plain and simjile 
 account of the architectural features of a country 
 church, however it may have been originally calcu- 
 lated for distribution amongst the younger mem- 
 bers of a society just springing into existence, is 
 but little worthy of the present position and ac- 
 knowledged name of the body under whose ausjiices 
 it is now again sent forth to the world ; whilst the 
 want of sufficient leisure, and other weighty occu- 
 jiations have prevented that due amount of care 
 and attention being bestowed upon the Memoir by 
 which the writer would gladly have endeavoured to 
 
 » See Archaeological Journal for September, 1815, No. 7, p. 30.5, 
 Report of the proceedings at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological 
 Institute at Winchester; and the speech of the Rev. the Master of Uni- 
 versity College, Oxford, to whom the Oxford Architectural Society is so 
 much indebted. Also the Quarterly Review, No. 137, vol. 69. p. 113. 
 
SECOND EDITION. 
 
 IX 
 
 render it more worthy of reappearing in a second 
 edition. 
 
 He is only, tlierefore, willing to assent to its 
 reappearance at all, from the same hope which 
 originally led to its publication, that it may be of 
 some use as a guide or hand-book to some of the 
 younger members of the University, who from time 
 to time may enrol themselves as members of the 
 Oxford Architectural Society, and for the use of 
 whose predecessors, as stated above, it was origi- 
 nally printed. 
 
 With regard to the description of the church it- 
 self but very few alterations or additions have been 
 made, and on the whole the “ Paper” retains the 
 same simple form under which it was originally laid 
 before the Society at the meeting of Nov. 19, 1839. 
 
 The Appendix, however, consisting of historical 
 and other notices connected with the parish, the 
 manor, and the sepulchral memorials of the church, 
 has been considerably enlarged. The authorities 
 from whom these notices have been collected are 
 mentioned on each occasion. The object in draw- 
 ing up these historical and genealogical memoranda 
 has been, not to present a complete history of the 
 many families and the great names of old connected 
 with the parish, (the province rather of a county 
 history,) but to give simply a brief sketch of those 
 
X 
 
 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE 
 
 successive families, amongst which are to be found 
 most probably the individuals to whom the various 
 parts of the church owed their erection or deco- 
 ration. And although in the search for information 
 on this head no precise evidence has been dis- 
 covered, (except in the case of Ri/cote chapel,) of 
 the names of those who were actually the founders 
 or benefactors on this or that occasion, still it is an 
 approximation towards such discovery to arrange in 
 chronological order the names of those who from their 
 wealth, their position, and influence, would be likely 
 to be forward in offering gladly of their abundance. 
 
 In conclusion, it remains to be stated that in 
 1841, partly in consequence of attention being 
 called to this interesting church by the publication 
 of the first edition of this Memoir, the restoration 
 of it was undertaken, under the sanction of the 
 Oxford Architectural Society. 
 
 The repairs of the nave and aisles cost . . £204 8 6 
 
 Tlie open seats of oak throughout the church . 350 9 7 
 The new roof and ceiling to the clnincel, with 
 
 necessary alterations . . . . . 511 10 3 
 
 Expended, total . . . 1066 8 4 
 
 The total amount of subscriptions received up to 
 
 1843 was . . . . . . .514186 
 
 In 1847 was received from the executors of the 
 Hon. and Very Rev. Dr. Hobart, dean of 
 Windsor, the late rector, tlie sum of . . 25 0 0 
 
 Received, total . 
 
 . 539 18 6 
 
SECOND EDITION. 
 
 XI 
 
 The fund collected for effecting the restoration 
 of the church, which has cost much more than the 
 original estimate, is still therefore deficient to the 
 amount of £526. 9,9. lOt/.*’ Whatever proceeds may 
 result from the sale of this Memoir will be placed 
 to the credit of the fund, towards the liquidation of 
 the above debt. 
 
 Finally, his best thanks and acknowledgments 
 are due by the writer of these “ Remarks” to many 
 friends who have kindly assisted him with informa- 
 tion or useful suggestions, particularly to the Rev. 
 John Baron, Vicar of Waterpery, the author of the 
 Heraldic ^Memoranda in the memoir of Dorchester 
 Abbey Chureh ; the Hon. and Rev. F. Bertie, 
 Rector of Albury; Mr. I. II. Parker, of O.xford ; 
 and the Gentleman’s Magazine for August, 1840. 
 
 T. W. W. 
 
 Litti-e Dean's Yard, Westminster, 
 June 3 , 1848 . 
 
 See the Statement, p. xiii. 
 
STATEMENT PUT FORTH IN BEHALF OF 
 
 IIASELEY CHURCH, OXFORDSHIRE, 
 
 IN 1843. 
 
 Attention having been called to the neglected and dila- 
 pidated state of this fine church, by the publication (in 1840) 
 of Mr. Weare’s paper read before the “ O.vford Society for pro- 
 moting the Study of Gothic Architecture,” the inhabitants were 
 very desirous that the church should be restored, and for this 
 purpose the farmers of the parish uiMnimously agreed to a rate 
 of eightpence in the pound, producing about £140, which was 
 raised and expended upon the substantial repair of the roofs of 
 the nave and aisles. The principal landowners and parties 
 connected with the parish also subscribed to the amount of 
 £325; but the sum raised being insufficient, they are compelled 
 to request the aid of such of their friends and well-wishers as 
 are able and willing to assist in this good work. The restora- 
 tion has been conducted by J. M. Derick, Esq., Architect, 
 under the direction of the “ Oxford Society for promoting the 
 Study of Gothic Architecture.” 
 
 The plan originally proposed was to remove the flat plaster 
 ceiling of the chancel, cutting away the beams, making the 
 ends of them into hammer beams, and leaving the outer roof 
 untouched : this plan has been lately carried out with success 
 in St. Nicholas’ church, Abingdon, at an expense under £200. 
 A contract was taken for Haseley church on this plan at £480’ 
 including the new seats in the nave and aisles; and this sum 
 
STATEMENT, ETC. 
 
 was raised. Unfortunately, when the ceiling was removed, the 
 outer roof, put on about thirty years ago, was found to be 
 chiefly of poplar wood and quite decayed, so that it was im- 
 possible to carry out the plan, or to throw open the beautiful 
 head of the east window, without an entirely new roof: and 
 the work had gone too far to be stopped. 
 
 Statement of the Account for the restoration of Uaseley Church, 
 Oxfordshire, June 1, 1848. 
 
 RECEIVED. 
 
 LANDED FROrRIETOKS. 
 
 The Earl of Abingdon - - - £100 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 Walter Long, Esq. - - . - 
 
 100 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 Sir Janies Flower .... 
 
 20 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 The Dean and Chapter of Windsor - 
 
 30 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 T. P. Shaw, Esq. . - . . 
 
 25 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 11. Hamersley, Esq. - . .. 
 
 10 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 Lady Mary Long . - . . 
 
 10 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 Rev. W. Birkett, Perpetual Curate - 
 
 10 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 325 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 Collected in Oxford, 1841 - 
 
 - 
 
 
 83 
 
 9 
 
 6 
 
 Ditto, 1842 . - . . 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 72 
 
 19 
 
 0 
 
 Ditto, 1843 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 33 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 1847. — Received from the executors of the Hon. and Very 
 
 
 
 
 Rev. Dr. Hobart, dean of Windsor, late rector 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 25 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 
 
 
 539 
 
 18 
 
 6 
 
 Present deficit 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 526 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 £1066 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 EXPENDED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 New roof of Chancel and repairing windows, &c. 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 511 
 
 10 
 
 3 
 
 (The contract was for £120. 18s. 
 
 lOd.) 
 
 
 
 
 
 New open seats of oak in old style, according to contract 
 
 - 
 
 350 
 
 9 
 
 7 
 
 Subsequent alterations of ditto, caused by moving the Font 
 
 
 
 
 and Pulpit - . . . 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 20 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 Repairs of Nave and Aisles, new doors, &c. 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 136 
 
 7 
 
 4 
 
 Removing western gallery, throwing open tower 
 
 •arch, and 
 
 
 
 
 repairs of Tower ... 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 47 
 
 17 
 
 8 
 
 X'loee 8 4 
 
COi^TENTS. 
 
 IIASELEY CIIUKCII. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Architectural description of the church ... 3 
 
 Appendix A. — iileasurements of the church ... 41 
 
 B. — List of Rectors, &c 43 
 
 C. — List of Lords of the Manor of Haseley, &c. . 56 
 
 D. — Extract from Leland 69 
 
 E. — Ileraldry, Monuments, Arms, &c. . . 72 
 
 F. — Wall paintings formerly in the church . 1 10 
 
 G. — The cross-legged effigy 112 
 
 RYCOTE CHAPEL. 
 
 Architectural description of the chapel . . . .127 
 
 Appendix H. — List of Lords of the Jlanor of Rycote . . 136 
 
 I. — Ileraldry, arms, &c 149 
 
 General index of armorial bearings 157 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Plate 1. — Haseley Church, general view . . Frontispiece 
 
 2. — Nave, general view ... to face page 7 
 
 3. — Details of Nave, &c. ..... 8 
 
 4. — The AYest Door 3 
 
 5. — Details of West Door 4 
 
 6. — The Chancel, before the restoration . . .12 
 
 6 6is. — Ditto, after the restoration .... 1.3 
 
 7. — Sedilia, (Sec 18 
 
 8. — Chancel and other AVindows . . . .14 
 
 9. — Details in Chancel 19 
 
 10. — Details in North Aisle ..... 22 
 
 11. — Ditto 23 
 
 12. — The Open Seats — Details . . . . .28 
 
 13. — The Cross-legged Effigy . . . . .112 
 
 14. — Rector Butler’s brass monument ... 72 
 
 15. — Ground Plan 41 
 
 16.^ 
 
 / Arms, formerly in the Church ... 90, 91 
 
 18. — Rycote Chapel, with plan . 
 
 . 127 
 
SOME REMARKS 
 
 ON THE 
 
 CHURCH OF GREAT HASELEY, 
 
 OXFORDSHIKE. 
 
 B 
 

 
PLATE 4 
 
 I 
 
GllEAT HASELEY. 
 
 CHURCH DEDICATED TO 
 
 PATRONS. 
 
 THE DEAN AND ijJctfr. 
 
 CANONS 
 OF WINDSOR. 
 
 DEANERY 
 OF CODDESDEN. 
 HUNDRED 
 OF EWELME. 
 
 The village of Great Haseley is situated about 
 ten miles to the eastward of Oxford, and about a 
 mile and a half to the south of the old London 
 road, by way of Tetsworth and High Wycombe. 
 
 The chiu’ch consists of a nave with aisles, and a 
 chancel ; with a tower at the west end. 
 
 The west doorway, which is in the tower, is a 
 very beautiful specimen of the Early English style, 
 and ai)parcntly of the very earliest period of that 
 style, for it retains some characteristics of the pre- 
 ceding®. The arch, as in the Norman and Tran- 
 sition period, is recessed — consisting, in this in- 
 stance, of three principal divisions, or concentric 
 arches, placed within and behind each others. They 
 
 “ See plate 4. 
 
 ’’ F roni the middle of the thirteenth century, the sepa- 
 rate arches, forming together one concentric system, are less 
 
 B 2 
 
4 
 
 HASELEY CHURCH— THE WEST DOOR. 
 
 are ornamented with edge mouldings and deep 
 liollows'. These arches severally rest upon shafts 
 with caj)itals of Early English character, but with 
 square abaci, a feature which is generally a charac- 
 teristic, in this country, of Norman and Transition 
 work, though frequently found in Normandy and 
 other parts of the continent at a nincli later period 
 
 strongly marked. Compare the north doorway of Great Mil- 
 ton church. “Guide to the Archit. Antiq. in the Neiglibour- 
 hood of Oxford,” p. 310. 
 
 ® See the section, plate 5. 
 
 The abacus is a very important feature in Gothic archi- 
 tecture, and it is interesting to trace the influence which its 
 successive forms (square, octagonal, and round) exercised in 
 the gradual developement of the vertical principle, upon the 
 decline of the liomanesque, or horizontal style of building. 
 AVherever the square abacus has heen retained in buildings 
 of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, (as in the continental 
 churches mentioned beneath, and in many others, though sel- 
 dom if at all in English churches of those centuries,) it at once, 
 from its prominence, strikes the eye as an obstruction to the 
 upuard tendency of the principal lines of sight, as formed by 
 the piers and pillars, and their accompanying mouldings. See 
 M’hewell on “German Churches,” third edition, j>p. 111,321. 
 
 Examples of late instances of the square abacus. 
 
 The choir of S. Etienne, Caen, nearly throughout. 
 
 The choir of S. Piene, Caen: here some of the abaci are 
 square, others octagonal, and others again circular. The style 
 of this choir is that of the end of the fourteenth and tifteenth 
 centuries. 
 
 The choir of Bayeux cathedral ; here square abaci occur 
 under equilateral and acutely pointed arches of the thirteenth 
 and fourteenth centuries. 
 
 The nave of Coutances cathedral has also square abaci : in 
 the choir they are circular. 
 
PLATE 5. 
 
 r 
 
 i 
 
 t 
 
 # 
 
 
 WEST DOOR 
 
 
 CBANCEL ARCH 
 
 EARLY ENGLISH 
 
mm 
 
THE WEST DOOR. 
 
 5 
 
 The presence of this peculiarity, therefore, in this 
 instance, would perhaps waiTant us in assigning 
 this doorway to the earliest period of the Early 
 English style, or about A.D. 1200. The tooth or- 
 nament also occurs in the hollow of the mouldings 
 of the outermost of the three arches ; the small 
 pyramids of which it is composed arc not here so 
 acute as in many later instances of Early English 
 work^. 
 
 The doorway, however, and the great arch in its 
 eastern side, arc the only parts of the western tower 
 
 The nave of Rouen cathedral : the pillars of the triforium 
 gallery of the choir have them also. 
 
 Tlie chapter-house of S. George de Bocherville near Rouen, 
 and many others. 
 
 * The origin of the tooth ornament may be traced from the 
 chevron or zigzag moulding so common in Norman buildings; 
 a slight variation from this would immediately lead to the form 
 which, from a supposed resemblance, has been called the tooth 
 moulding. Compare plates 53, 54, 56 and 58 of the third 
 edit, of the “ Glossary of Architecture,” where the connection 
 is easily traceable between the Norman chevron, indented, 
 lozenge, pointed arched, and star mouldings, and those of the 
 Early English period, as exhibited at Glastonbury, Cuddesden, 
 Ketton, and St. Cross. — See also the beautiful engraving (from 
 a drawing by Mr. Twopeny) of the interior of Barfreston 
 church, Kent. A very early example of the dog-tooth mould- 
 ing is given in Willis’s “Canterbury Cathedral,” p. 82; and a 
 very late instance occurs at Lichfield in the mouldings of a 
 Tudor arch. [See Petit’s “ Ch. Archit.”- i. p. 215.] The tooth 
 ornament is almost peculiar to England ; but Mr. Petit men- 
 tions it as occurring on one of the doors of the church of 
 Bacharach on the Rhine. [Ibid. i. p. 147.] 
 
6 
 
 FtASEI-F,Y CFU’nCH TFIE WEST DOOR. 
 
 which are of an early character ; the tower itself 
 having apparently been cased during the Per])en- 
 diciilar period. There are two other doorwfiys^ on 
 the north and south sides of the nave, nearly simi- 
 lar in character to this one in the tower, though 
 plainer, and not equal to it in elegance. That, 
 however, at the Avest end of the north aisle, appears 
 to belong to the fourteenth centnr}-, innch later 
 than the other two. 
 
 ^ Two doors are frequently found at the western end of 
 churches, one in each aisle, fronting north and south. Where 
 this is the case, that part of the church was sometimes called 
 the Parvise (Parvisum). “ Here people passed through to say 
 their prayers not in service time, children were taught, [whence 
 the name a parvis pueris ibi edoctis,] and sometimes courts 
 temporal were held.” Staveley, “Hist, of Churches,” p. 157. 
 He quotes Chaucer, Prologue, [“Cant. Tales, ’ 1. 312.] 
 
 “ A Serjeant at Law, ware, and wise, 
 
 That had often been at the Parvise.” 
 
 Also .Judge Fortescue “de laudibus Leg. Ang.,” cap. 51. 
 “ Placitantes tunc se divertunt ad Parvisum, consulentes cum 
 servientibus ad Legem.” 
 
 The name Parvisum is still retained in the testamur, or 
 document given to each member of the University on passing 
 his first examination. Lord Lindsay, in his “ Sketches of the 
 History of Christian Art,” speaking of the symbolism of Gothic 
 architecture, refers to an “ Essai sur les Legendes Pieuses du 
 Moyen-Age,” by M. Alfred Maury, who says of the parvise, 
 “ le poi tail des eglises offrait .... I'image du Paradis, para- 
 disus, nom qui fut donne pour cette raison sans doute a I’aire 
 du portail, et qui fut changil plus tard, par corruption, en celui 
 de parvisitim, parvis.” This view is inconsistent with that 
 which supposes the chancel symbolically to represent heaven. 
 See page 12, note m. 
 
PLATE 2 
 
 'I 
 
THE NAVE. 
 
 7 
 
 The nave of the clmrch has four arches on each 
 side : the j)icrs are about seven feet high. They 
 are of single cylindrical shafts, with bases. These 
 bases consist of circular roll mouldings, (in classical 
 architecture, the torus,) resting on a S(}uare plinth. 
 The hollows between the mouldings are deep, and 
 owing to the projection of the outer roll are capable 
 of holding water, a peculiarity which is held to be 
 a characteristic of about the year 1200; whilst at 
 the diagonals of the base the foot ornament so often 
 found in Norman work ])rojects to each of the four 
 angles of the plinth. The capitals are quite Nor- 
 man in character, and bear a very strong resem- 
 blance to those in Christchurch cathedral. — See 
 plates 2 and 3. 
 
 Here also, as at Christchurch, th^ abaci are large 
 
8 
 
 HASELEY CHURCH — THE NAVE. 
 
 and square, and projecting. But we must not on 
 this account refer these piers to so early a date as 
 those of Clu*istclnu’ch cathedral*, not\nthstanding 
 the strong resemblance between them. There is a 
 comparative slenderness or lightness about these of 
 llaseley cluu'ch, and an absence of that solidity and 
 massiveness so strongly characteristic of Norman 
 work, as exhibited by the latter. The pier arches 
 too, with which they seem to be contemporary, are 
 pointed, and bear every mark of the style which 
 prevailed at the close of the tAvelfth and commence- 
 ment of the thirteenth centm-y^ when the struggle 
 was at its height between the Norman and Pointed 
 styles. 
 
 The pier arches are of considerable span. (See 
 plate 2.) The arch mouldings consist of an edge 
 moulding very similar in shape to a pear or heart, 
 with the point tmned outwards’*. The presence of 
 this characteristic, which is often found in the De- 
 corated style of the fomteenth centiuy, but never 
 before the Early English, together with a double 
 
 8 The Norman portions of Christchurch cathedral were 
 completed, it seems, before 1180, under the superintendence 
 of the second prior Robert of Cricklade, or Canutus, and 
 under the auspices of Pope Adrian IV. — See “ Memorials of 
 Oxford,” vol. i. 
 
 ** For this form see also plates 57 and 59 in the third 
 edition of the “ Glossary of Architecture,” and ^Vhewel^8 
 “ Arch. Notes,” third edition, page 261, where it is said to be 
 “ common in Early English.” 
 
PLATE 3 
 
10 
 
 HASELEY CHURCH ARCHES OF NAVE. 
 
 in the fully developed Pointed style, to round off 
 the edges of the arch by means of numerous mould- 
 ings, with their attendant hollows, and thus to 
 break the squareness of the mass of wall. We 
 shall not, therefore, be far uTong if we assign those 
 of the piers and pier arches, which are of the above 
 character, to the commencement of the thirteenth 
 century 
 
 ^ A subsequent examination of Delafield’s MSS. in the 
 Bodleian Library very nearly confirms this supposition. It 
 appears from his researches that no notice occurs in Domes- 
 day-book of a church at Haseley. This survey was com- 
 menced in 1082 and finished in 1086. The first notice of 
 Haseley church occurs in the year 1219, when “ In the third 
 year of Henry III., and the tenth of the episcopate of Hugo 
 Wellas, or Welles, bishop of Lincoln, William de Newent was 
 collated to the vicarage of Haseley — .” This fact Delafield 
 had ascertained from the Lincoln register, [from which an 
 extract is given at page 43,] to which diocese Haseley be- 
 longed previous to the formation of that of Oxford in 1342. — 
 [See Dodsworth’s Coll. MSS. 5048. fol. 5, and Delafield MSS. 
 19, p. 42. ] 
 
 Mr. Delafield, from whose MSS. much interesting inform- 
 ation regarding the history of the church and manor has been 
 collected, was a singular exception to the apathy which so 
 generally pervaded all ranks in the last century, both with 
 regard to the antiquities of our country, and the circumstantial 
 and local history of bygone days. Many of his observations 
 do him great honour ; but it is impossible to refrain, whilst 
 bearing testimony to his merits as an antiquary, from express- 
 ing regret that the ignorance of the times in which he lived, in 
 all matters of architectural taste and knowledge, extended 
 itself even to him. His account of the manor, and his history 
 of the parish, are most full, while his attempts at architectural 
 description are but scanty and incorrect. 
 
ClI ANtEL-ARCH. 
 
 11 
 
 Tlie two arches nearest to the east end of the 
 nave, (one on either side,) are however of a later 
 character. The j)iers are more lofty, and octagonal, 
 or, to speak more correctly, the internal surfaces 
 on either side are semi-octagonal. The capitals are 
 also of the bell shape, with semi-octagonal abaci 
 composed of three members. These two arches 
 are more obtuse than the others, and are j)lain, 
 consisting of merely one hollow and flat. They 
 may perhaps have been alterations, or insertions, 
 about the time of the erection of the tower, perhaps 
 the middle of the fifteenth century. These arches 
 have been mentioned here in their order of local 
 position, and not in that of chronological arrange- 
 ment : and we may here also notice, for the pur- 
 pose of dismissal, the clerestory windows of the 
 nave, of which it may be sufficient to say, that they 
 are amongst the very worst specimens of the de- 
 based Gothic style, and evidently inserted at a 
 much later ])eriod. 
 
 Between the nave and chancel there is an Early 
 English arch. The arch is recessed, and consists 
 of two members*. The arch mouldings are the 
 simple edge-roll moulding with attendant hollows, 
 and the arch itself rests uj)on corbels, projecting 
 from the main walls, with capitals of late Norman 
 character and abaci square. These latter circum- 
 
 • See the section of this arch in plate 0, and one of the 
 corbels in plate 3. 
 
12 
 
 IIASELEY CHURCH THE ROOD-LOFT. 
 
 stances ’would point out the beginning of the thir- 
 teenth century as the date of this j)ortion of the 
 church™. 
 
 On the south or right hand side looking towards 
 the altar, and just before we pass under the above- 
 mentioned arch into the chancel, there are traces" 
 in the main wall of a round-headed doorway. This 
 no doubt was the entrance to a staircase in the 
 wall which led up to the rood-loft. Of the rood-loft 
 itself, however, there are not the slightest vestiges 
 remainingo. 
 
 ™ Rood-scrkbn. It appears that in Delafield’s time (about 
 1740) the rood-screen was still remaining. He says, “ The 
 chancel is parted from the nave by a screen of wood, in which 
 is a small double folding door. Just over it was the rood-loft, 
 which the ancient ritualists say was placed there not without 
 a mysterious signification. — Staveley, ‘ History of Churches,’ 
 p. 199, says, ‘ the body of the church was said to represent the 
 Church militant, and the chancel the Church triumphant, and 
 those that would pass out of the former into the latter, must 
 go under the rood-loft, that is, the)' must go under the cross 
 and suffer affliction.’” — See also “Sparrow's Rationale;” 
 the chapter on “ Chancels, Altars, Fashion of Churches.” 
 “ Wheatly on the Common Prayer,” ch. ii. sect. 2. Lord 
 Lindsay, [“ Sketches of the History of Christian Art,” vol. ii. 
 20,] speaking of the changes consequent on the rise of Gothic 
 out of Lombard architecture, says, “ a lofty stone screen, sym- 
 bolical of the transition through death from the Church mili- 
 tant to the Church triumphant, was interposed between the 
 chancel and the nave.” 
 
 " Since the repairs of the church this doorway has been 
 re-opened. 
 
 ® The Rood-loft. Delafield states that “ fifteen steps in 
 
plate 6 
 
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 N 
 
PLATE 6 bU. 
 
 F.ATil/V OKCOKATED c. ir = 
 
 
THE CHANCEL. 
 
 13 
 
 The Chancelp. The most interesting part of 
 Ilaseley church, however, is the chancel, botli from 
 the beauty of the general design, and the elegance 
 with which the stone-work is executed. It well 
 deseiwes the encomium of the antiquary Leland*', 
 who in his Itinerary styles it, “ the fair chaunceUe 
 
 the south wall led up the rood-loft. The Saxons wrote it rod 
 or rode. It is of frequent occurrence in Chaucer, who calls 
 the cross of the crucifix the roode-tree, and the floor on which 
 it was raised the roode-beam. So Chaucer's ‘ Wife of Bath,’ 
 ^Cant. Tales, line 6078, edition 1847,] describing the par- 
 ticular place of her husband's burial, sa}’s, 
 
 ‘ He lith ygrave under the rode-beein.’ 
 
 “ The festival of the invention of the cross (May 3) in our 
 calendar, and still retained, is vulgarly called rood-mass, or 
 crouch-mass day, or holy cross day ; but is much better known 
 by the name of holy-rood. Upon a late review (says Delafield) 
 I find the doorway stopped up, and the wooden-work (of the 
 rood-loft), which was a large and stately frame, quite gone. 
 And as I said before of the expunging of the image of death, 
 [see Appendix,] and the Scripture sentences against the walls, 
 I think without any addition to the solemnity of the church. 
 ‘ He that hewed timber afore out of the thick trees, was known 
 to bring it to an excellent work. But now they break down 
 all the carved work thereof with axes and hammers. They 
 have set fire upon Thy holy places, and have defiled the dwel- 
 ling place of Thy name, even unto the ground. Yea, they said 
 in their hearts. Let us make havoc of them altogether : thus 
 have they burnt up all the houses of God in the land.’ ” — 
 Psalm Ixxiv. 
 
 P See the exterior in the frontispiece, and the interior in its 
 present state (1839), in plate 6. 
 
 t The famous antiquary Leland was Rector of Haseley, in 
 1542. See the List of Rectors in Appendix. 
 
14 . 
 
 IIASEI.KY CHUltCH THE CHANCEU 
 
 of llaselcy Chircli.” Tlie chancel has three win- 
 dows on each side, with a large east window over 
 the altar. The side windows are of tw'o lights, and 
 of the purest Decorated style. The arches of the 
 windows are acutely pointed ; the single niullion 
 by which they are divided into two, separates at 
 the usual height into two branches j each of these, 
 continuing onwards, abuts against the window side 
 or frame, preserving nearly the same curve with 
 that of the great arch of the window". These two 
 separate lights, thus formed, are trefoiled in the 
 head ; above these are acute trefoils perforated, and 
 between the heads of the two lights a quatrefoil 
 and other perforations : the whole effect ])roduced 
 being that of great sim})licity, lightness, and ele- 
 gance. The workmanship and execution of these 
 windows are no less to be admired than the design. 
 There is a sharpness in the cutting and carving, 
 and a ])roportionate lightness preseiwed throughout, 
 which has seldom been surpassed even in churches 
 of greater pretensions. 
 
 There is, throughout, a very strong resemblance 
 between the windows of this chancel, inclnding the 
 east window, and those of the choir of Merton 
 
 ■■ See the second Essay on Gothic Arcliitecture in Fioude’s 
 “ Remains,” where tlie gradual change in tlie form and arrange- 
 ment of the window mullions is ably set forth. Both the 
 Essays will well repay perusal, and contain some most inter- 
 esting and original remarks on the origin and progress of 
 Pointed architecture. 
 
PLATE 8 
 
 EARLY DECORATED LATE DECORATED 
 
 SODTH SIDS OP CHANCEL, c laW. WEST END OP NORTH AISLE, c 1340 
 
 PERPENDICTTT.AR 
 
 EAST END OF NORTH AISLE, c. HOO. 
 
THE CHANCEI.. 
 
 15 
 
 College chapel. Those of Merton chapel, how- 
 ever, belong to the j)eriod of geometrical tracery, 
 and woidd appear to be rather earlier than these of 
 Haseley church, although the general design of the 
 latter, as we shoidd expect in a smaller edifice, is 
 more simple ; — for instance, the side windows of 
 Merton chapel are of three lights ; here they are of 
 two* ; — the tracery there is more formal and regular; 
 whilst here we have an elegance in the flow of the 
 tracery lines, which would seem to point out the 
 period immediately preceding the establishment of 
 the complete or flowing Decorated style, as that in 
 which these windows were executed. We may 
 perhaps, therefore, assign them and the whole 
 chancel to the age of Edward the Second, or the 
 beginning of the fomdeenth century, the Decorated 
 style reaching its completion about the middle of 
 that centuT}’, and during the long reign of the 
 Third Edward ‘. 
 
 * See one of tlie side windows in plate 8, and its section in 
 plate 9. 
 
 • The evidence adduced in the “ Memorials of Oxford” with 
 regard to the choir of Merton chapel, points to the latter part 
 of the reign of Edward the First as the date of its construction. 
 A later examination, however, of the bursar’s rolls of the 
 college has shewn that the /ti^A a//ar was dedicated in the 
 year 1277, thus fixing the date of the choir to an earlier year 
 than the commonlj’ received account. [See the “ Glossary of 
 Arch.” and the “Archaeological Journal,” No. VI. page 137.] 
 Whilst therefore we attribute Merton choir to the above-men- 
 tioned date, (1277,) we may refer perhaps the chancel of Hase- 
 
HASEI.EY CHUllCII THE EAST WINDOW. 
 
 
 The east window is of considerable size ; it is of 
 five lights, and of great span ; the subdivisions are 
 trefoiled in the head, and above these is a large 
 circle or wheel embracing three spherical triangles, 
 and other foliated perforations". The whole chan- 
 cel, and particularly this east window, from their 
 strong resemblance to the choir and east windows 
 in Merton College chapel, would perhaps warrant 
 
 ley to a few years later, or possibly to the commencement of 
 the fourteenth century; but, on the other hand, there is one 
 feature which would appear to point out Ilaseley as the earlier 
 of the two. The chancel buttresses of Ilaseley church are 
 quite of Early English character, and similar to those of 
 Salisbury cathedral ; they are the earliest variation from the 
 plain Norman, and are merely plain buttresses, graduated into 
 steps, with the stones at each step overlapping each other (see 
 plate xvi. “ Glossary of Architecture”) as tiles ; the whole 
 above dying into the wall, without any finish of a cap or 
 pinnacle. Those of Merton chapel seem to belong to a more 
 finished style, and are capped with the triangular head, the 
 source of the pinnacle finish in the next age. 
 
 From a reference however to the facts which the MSS. of 
 Delafield has placed in our hands, it appears that in the twenty- 
 eighth year of Henry the Third, (1244.) and in the ninth year 
 of Robert Grostete, or Greathead, bishop of Lincoln, the 
 vicarage and parsonage of Ilaseley were united, and in 1292 
 were valued together at thirty-three marks, and a pension of 
 two and a-half marks paid annually to the abbot of Bee in 
 Normandy, {See Appendix.) As it is the duty of the rector 
 to keep the chancels of churches in repair, it is not unreason- 
 able to suppose that the present chancel was built soon after 
 this union of the parsonage and vicarage, probably about 1280 
 or 1290, or a few years later than Merton choir. 
 
 “ See the frontispiece and plate 6, also the section in 
 plate 9. 
 
TUE EAST WINDOW. 
 
 17 
 
 a conjecture that the two chancels may have been 
 designed and constructed under the same snper- 
 intendance. Nor is this resemblance to be seen 
 only in the general design ; — the workmanship in 
 both cases seems identical; and the employment 
 of similar ornaments and mouldings in similar posi- 
 tions could not well be accidental*. 
 
 But it will excite no little suiprise and regret 
 amongst the true lovers of architectural beauty, 
 and those who venerate our ecclesiastical edifices, 
 to hear that the head of this beautiful window, as 
 seen from within, is quite lost to the eye, owing to 
 a flat modern ceiling, with which the taste of the 
 last century has thought fit to ornament the chan- 
 cel. This ceiling has been so managed as to cut 
 off the window horizontally, exactly at the com- 
 mencement of the tracery, which, in consequence, 
 is only to be seen entire from the outside of the 
 churchy. 
 
 » The section of the mullions of Merton chapel is given in 
 plate 63 of the “ Glossary of Arch.” — those of Haseley 
 chancel are identically the same ; and it may be remarked 
 that the simple roll or cylinder moulding, in both these in- 
 stances, standing single and alone, without any set-off, is not 
 of frequent occurrence. 
 
 y See plate 6. This is not the only loss sustained bj’ the 
 presence of this miserable ceiling. Delafield says, “ The roof 
 was of vaulted wainscot, framed into square panels or par- 
 titions, and was heretofore painted with the forms of clouds, 
 the sun, moon, and stars, to represent the furniture of the sky. 
 But the clouds have vanished within these few years, the sun 
 
 C 
 
18 
 
 HASELEY CHURCH — THE CHANCEL. 
 
 Nor is this the only sad instance of the barharisin 
 of the last century. From one of the beautiful 
 windows on the north side of the chancel the tra- 
 cery has been entirely cut away*, to open the view 
 into a mausoleum of brick-work, which, at this 
 point, has been attached externally to the chancel ; 
 and which contains within a choice specimen of 
 the Italian or quasi-classical sc])ulchral monuments, 
 which Avere so universally admired till Avithin these 
 last fcAV years. 
 
 The chancel has several other objects of interest, 
 Avhich Avell desene insj)ection. In the southern 
 Avail, near the altar steps, arc three sedilia, Avith a 
 piscina adjoining®. Near these is a large tond) 
 recessed in the Avail. 'I'hese arc all of early Deco- 
 rated character. Tavo of the sedilia, the arches of 
 Avhich arc acutely pointed and ornamented Avith 
 cinquefoils, &c., have straight-sided canopies over 
 
 is under an eclipse, the moon and the stars are fled, and all by 
 virtue of the white-wash, wherewith they have lately beautified 
 the church. Ah! the great improvements a judicious and 
 refined corrector may produce!” The church has, since 1839, 
 been repaired throughout, and this ceiling replaced by a 
 vaulted timber panelled roof, thus restoring to view the very 
 beautiful east window. 
 
 * This window has since been restored at the expense of 
 Walter liong, Esq., of Haseley Court, the present lord ot the 
 manor of Haseley, and the representative of the family by 
 whom the mausoleum was erected. 
 
 ® See the sedilia, piscina, and sepulchral recess, in plate 7, 
 and the section of the shaft in plate 9. 
 
PLATE 7, 
 
 I 
 
<Q9r- 
 
PLATE 9. 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 WINDOW, SOUTH SIDE OP 
 CHANCEL 
 
 EAST WINDOW. 
 
 STRING MOULDINGS. CHANCEL. 
 
 CHAUFEB ON THE WINDOW SIDES 
 CHANCEL. 
 
 EARLT DECORATED 
 
TEIE SEDILIA AND PISCINA. 
 
 19 
 
 them, surmounted with finials of very good work- 
 manjihip. Here also is a very peculiar substitute 
 for the crockets which usually set off the exterior 
 surface of canopies : an ornament is attached, con- 
 sisting of a double waving line cffami to a point at 
 the vertices of the waves, and exactly similar to 
 that fonn which in the language of heraldry is ex- 
 jiressed by the term engrailed. The formal charac- 
 ter of this ornament agrees well with the general 
 style of these sedilia, with their mouldings and 
 other ornaments. 
 
 The tomb adjoining the sedilia consists of a 
 large and deejdy-recessed arch, over a stone coffin. 
 The arch is ornamented with a trefoiled hanging 
 border, or pendent fringe, attached to its interior 
 surface, and a similar border running round above, 
 as a set-off instead of crockets. 
 
 From its prominent position and elaborate work- 
 manship, this tomb would appear to be that of the 
 builder of the chancel. There are traces of a large 
 cross on the lid of the stone sarcophagus. This 
 cross is much defaced, but yet would seem to point 
 out the spot, as the tomb of the founder of this 
 part of the chureh, it being often the custom to 
 decorate such tombs with crosses, although the 
 deceased may not have belonged to any ecclesias- 
 tical order'". The priest’s door to the westward of 
 
 " See Bloxam’s “ Monumental Architecture,” first edition, 
 page 124 and 131. Delafield states that there was in his time 
 
 c 2 
 
20 
 
 II A SE LEY CKTRCII — THE CHANCEL. 
 
 tlie above tomb, is plain ami small, with a seg- 
 mental arched head. 
 
 a similarly ornamented tomb near the pulpit in Great Milton 
 church, Oxon, and also at Turfield and Aston Rowant. lie 
 adds that the cross on the tomb at Haseley seemed to him to 
 resemble the sceptre of Richard, earl of Cornwall, and king of 
 the Romans, brother of Henry III., as represented on his seals. 
 [An engraving is given of the seal of Richard, earl of Corn- 
 wall, and king of the Romans, in Speed, edition 1632, page 
 617, with inscription, ‘ Ricardus Dei gratia Romanorum Rex 
 semper Augustus.’] There were neither arms nor inscription 
 on the tomb in Delafield’s time. He says, “ I find an inti- 
 mation that it might be for the sepulchre of Robert de Gaston, 
 abbot of Abingdon, who was elected in 1328, and died in 1331, 
 and was here buried.” 
 
 The circumstances of the tomb do not, how’ever, appear to 
 bear out the above. Bloxam, “ Mon. Arch.,” states, that to- 
 wards the end of the thirteenth century the upper slabs or lids of 
 coffins were fashioned of equal width throughout, whilst during 
 the earlier part of that century, and the whole of the preceding, 
 they were formed so as gradually to diminish in width from 
 the head to the feet. He elsewhere observes, that previously 
 to the commencement of Edward the First's reign, the sides 
 of tombs were unornamented, and that inscriptions are ex- 
 ceedingly rare in the thirteenth, though they become more 
 frequent in the succeeding century. 
 
 This tomb being in shape a trapezium, cannot be much 
 later than about the year 1250, or 1260, whilst again its plain, 
 undecorated sides, and the absence of any traces of an inscrip- 
 tion, would seem to point it out as at least anterior to the close 
 of that century. If these surmises be correct, it can hardly be 
 the tomb of the abbot of Abingdon, who died in 1331. The 
 architectural character of the arched recess over the tomb ap- 
 pears, moreover, to be earlier than the period of the abbot’s 
 death. 
 
 If it be the tomb of the founder of the chancel, the above 
 date would be nearly verified, the chancel having been most 
 
THE NORTH AISLE. 
 
 21 
 
 On the north side, and opposite to the sedilia, 
 there is a large tomb, abutting on and projecting 
 from the wall'. This appears to be of the age of 
 Henry VHI. The ornair.ents are shallow, and are 
 evidently an imitation of the panel-work so much 
 admu-ed in the sixteenth century. The mouldings 
 also are poor, casting but little or no shadow, owing 
 to the want of depth in the hollows which accom- 
 pany them'*. 
 
 We must now return to the aisles of the nave. 
 
 Tue north aisle has at its western end two 
 windows', which but for the ogee-headed lights, 
 
 likely built, as shewn in note t, p. 15, about the close of the thir- 
 teenth century. The abbot’s name according to Stevens, was 
 Robert de Garford. See Stevens’s “Addition to Dugdale’s Mo- 
 nasticon,” vol. i. p. 510. Browne Willis also (“ Hist, of Mitred 
 Abbies,” i. p. 7) has the same name and dates ; but in his Ad- 
 denda, i. p. 51, he says, “In the church of Great Haseley, 
 Oxon, in a MS. taken of the tomb there anno 1582, I meet 
 with this inscription — Hie jacet Richardus de Gardford quon- 
 dam Abbas de Abendon, bonus et mansuetus, cujus anime 
 propitietur Deus. Amen.” The MS. he quotes is that of the 
 celebrated antiquary Francis Thynne. See in Appendix an ex- 
 tract from his MS. which is preserved in the British Museum. 
 (Cotton MSS. Cleopatra, c. iii.) His testimony is decisive as 
 to the name of the occupant of the tomb, and as, from Stevens 
 and Willis, it appears that the abbot died in 1331, we must of 
 necessity look upon the style &c. of the tomb as a very late 
 specimen of that peculiar shape. 
 
 ® See plate 6. 
 
 See Appendix. This tomb, we learn from Delafield, is 
 that of Sir John Barrendyne, high sheriff of Oxon, in the 
 reign of Henry VIII. See List of Monuments, &c. 
 
 ® See plate 8. 
 
22 
 
 HASELEY CHURCH THE NORTH AISLE. 
 
 into which they are divided, present, from their 
 simplicity, an appearance of an earlier date than 
 that to which we must assign them, when we take 
 into consideration the above-mentioned peculiarity, 
 and the form of the mouldings, both of which are 
 of decidedly late Decorated character^ 
 
 At the eastern end of this aisle is a small chantry 
 or chapel, belonging of old to some family*. There 
 are here evident marks in the masonry, both inter- 
 nally and externally, of subsequent additions or 
 alterations which must have taken place in this 
 part of the chiu'ch. A small doorway, with a 
 depressed pointed arch, with straight sides, gave 
 admission of old to this private chapel, and still 
 remains though blocked up. Here are also two 
 very good Perpendicidar windows. (See plate 8.) 
 The arches of these windows are depressed, being 
 constructed from four centres, a form which is said 
 to be a mark of the Tudor period, though fre- 
 quently found before the time of Henry VII.** The 
 moiddings bear much resemblance to those of the 
 chancel windows ; — here also, as there, is seen the 
 
 f See the sections in plates 10 and 11. Tlie ogee and re- 
 versed ogee mouldings, as here found, are almost peculiar to 
 the end of the fourteenth and the fifteenth century. — See 
 “Gloss, of Architect.,'’ p. 148. 
 
 8 “ The possessors of Rycote have for a long time (says 
 Delafield) had here the right of seat and sepulture.” The aisle 
 is still called the liycote aisle. See Appendix. 
 
 ** See examples cited in the “ Gloss, of Architect.,” p. 18. 
 
PLATE 10. 
 
 DECORATED 
 
PLATE II 
 
 ) 
 
 I 
 
 
 I 
 
 4 
 
 f 
 
 f 
 
 r 
 
THE NORTH AISLE. 
 
 23 
 
 simple roll or cylinder moulding, but in this latter 
 instance resting on a base of greater diameter than 
 itself. The character of the moiddings is altoge- 
 ther of a bolder cast than that of those in general 
 use at the end of the fifteenth century, and on the 
 vvdiole, notwithstanding the so called Tudor arches, 
 we may refer the windows of this chantry to a 
 much earlier period, possibly as early as the end 
 of the fourteenth century*. On either side of the 
 eastern window of this chantiy arc plain brackets, 
 the mouldings of which ajipear to be of Early 
 English character — the capitals arc bell-shaped, 
 and the abaci octagonal — the whole very chaste 
 in execution The piscina and aumbry also still 
 remain ; the former has a shelf, slightly differing 
 from its ordinary arrangement. Both are of the 
 same age with the brackets above mentioned, and 
 arc evidently the remains of the chantry which 
 
 * See the section in plate 11. 
 
 ^ “ In the front (east) window of the north aisle was the effi- 
 gies of the patron of the chapel — some Roman Pontiff — painted 
 in the glass ; the head was remaining till of late years, as I well 
 remember. It was drawn in a three-quarter view, bearing a 
 youth look, without a beard, tbe hair short, with the ra)’s of 
 glory in a long pointed stream surrounding the head, which 
 W’as covered with a triple crown, called by the heralds an infula, 
 and such as the Popes were ordinarly drawn in. But the body 
 was quite demolished before, and the head hath since followed.” 
 — Delafield’s MSS. The triple croivn will be some guide to 
 the date of the glass painting, having been Jirst worn by Bene- 
 dict XII. (A.D. 1334 — 1342.) See note, p. 306, 2nd edition 
 of Dr. Wordsworth’s “ Letters to M. Gondon.” 
 
24 
 
 IIASELEY CHURCH — SEPULCHRAL RECESS. 
 
 existed previously to the alterations at the close of 
 the fourteenth, or early in the fifteenth century, 
 which have left the Rycote chantry as we now 
 see it. 
 
 In the north wall of this chantry is a large 
 sepulchral recess. The arch is very flat, and has 
 a slight ogee at the vertex. The chief mmdding 
 is the double ogee, and the whole appearance of 
 the tomb forbids its being referred to an earlier 
 period than the fifteenth, or latter part of the four- 
 teenth century. The measm-ements of this sepul- 
 chral recess very 7iearly agreeing with those of an 
 effigy of a cross-legged knight, which is at present' 
 lying neglected in the vestibule under the tower, 
 and which will be noticed hereafter, (see Appendix, 
 G,) woidd at first appear to warrant a suspicion 
 that the two have some connection, and that the 
 figure at some period may have been removed from 
 this its proper resting place”. But if the above 
 date to which the tomb has been referred, be 
 correct, they can have no connection whatever, for 
 the armom’ of the knight cannot be assigned to a 
 later date than the middle, or at the very latest the 
 end, of the thirteenth ccntiuy. It is possible, how- 
 ever, that the recess as it at present appears, may 
 
 ' This effigy has been removed, since 1839, to the Baren- 
 dijne altar-tomb in the chancel for want of a more appropriate 
 and convenient resting place. 
 
 “ See note z, Appendix G. 
 
THE SQUINTS. 
 
 25 
 
 be but the representative of one previously existing 
 on the same spot ; and that the ogee arched vertex 
 and the moiddings of late date, alluded to above, 
 may have been alterations of later times. If this 
 be not the case, a great difficulty remains as to 
 what situation in the church the effigy is to be 
 referred. It can scarcely have been brought to 
 this church from the chapel of Rycote", or indeed 
 from any other sacred edifice ; and no arch in the 
 church even ajiproximates in measurement to it, 
 cxcejit the one in question. 
 
 In the wall of this chantry, as well as in that of 
 the south aisle, there is a large perforation, looking 
 obliquely through the wall, towards the altar®. 
 These holes or perforations were no doubt intended 
 to enable those in the chantries to see the high 
 altar during the time of divine service p. 
 
 " The present chapel at Rycote (and there is no evidence to 
 shew the existence of a prior structure) is of the style of the 
 latter part of the fifteenth century. (2nd edit. See Appendix I. 
 where it is seen that Richard Quatemiain and Sibill his wife, 
 who died both in 1460, were the founders of this chapel, on the 
 authority of the Harleian MS. 245.) 
 
 ° See the ground plan, plate 14. These oblique openings are 
 called squints in some districts. See “Archaeological Journal,’’ 
 No. XII. Art. 3. 
 
 P Delafield thinks that “ the holes were designed for lancets 
 to convey the voice of the priests officiating at the high altar to 
 penitents who were under ecclesiastical censure, and therefore 
 not admitted (while thus bound) to the full and complete par- 
 taking of and joining in the offices of religion.’’ The common 
 
26 
 
 UASELEY CHURCH THE SOUTH AISLE 
 
 \ 
 
 The south aisle at its western end has two || 
 
 Perpendieidar windows, inueh inferior however to | 
 
 those in the north aisle ehantry^. The south door | 
 
 has already been noticed, (p. 6.) Proceeding I 
 
 eastward along this aisle we come to three arched | 
 
 recesses for tombs in the main walP. The arches ‘ 
 
 are obtusely pointed, and are ornamented with a . 
 
 pendent border of perforated trefoils. These appear j 
 
 to be of early character, most probably of the com- ' 
 
 mencement of the fourteenth century. Under one 
 of these, and coeval with the nave, is a stone coffin 
 or sai’cophagus, narrowing gradually in width the J 
 
 whole length downwards. Coffins of this shape ; 
 
 were in constant use during the twc'lfth and part j 
 
 of the thirteenth centuries. The lid is flat, and Ij 
 
 perhaps was heretofore ornamented with sculp- | 
 
 ture’. V 
 
 Over these recesses are two windows, which ^ 
 
 idea formerly current in the parish, that they were employed 
 for confession, seems untenable. ' 
 
 *1 “ Near the west window of this south aisle (says Dela- 
 field) was the effigy of a skeleton,” &c. See. for which see Ap- j 
 
 pendix F. ’ 
 
 ' See plate 2. 
 
 s In Delafield’s time the other two recesses were empty as 
 now. He conjectures that there had been other sarcophagi in 
 them, and that “ the bones of the dead disturbed in erecting 
 the present nave” (thus presuming that there had been a 
 church here before 1200, of which there is no evidence) “ were 
 placed altogether in them, no unusual thing, as Matthew Paris 
 informs us — ‘ Ossa diligenter sunt collecta et in duobus tumulis 
 lapideis, facto quodam arcu in muro.’ ” &c. -J 
 
THE SOUTH AISLE. 
 
 27 
 
 appear to be an attempt of some rude country 
 mason in the early Decorated period. They are 
 of three liglits, with three spherical triangles above, 
 but the workmanship is exceedingly coarse ‘. 
 
 BEAD OP east window IN SOOTH AISLE. 
 
 The eastern window of this south aisle, however, 
 is a good specimen of the geometrical Decorated 
 style “. Here was also, as in the north aisle, a 
 chapel or chantry. The piscina, an elegant speci- 
 men of the Decorated period, still remains, as do 
 also under the east window portions of the altar- 
 screen, or reredos, which still retains traces of the 
 original painting. On the south side of this altar 
 is a niche, with an ogee arch and canopy, but the 
 workmanship is inferior*. 
 
 * It is possible that the tracery may have been cut out of 
 these windows, no uncommon thing in the last century, and 
 this would in some degree account for their present rude ap- 
 pearance. 
 
 “ This window may be seen, and its tracery clearly made 
 out, though on a small scale, in the frontispiece. 
 
 * Delafield says, “ Tliis south aisle was divided from the 
 
28 
 
 HASELEY CHURCH THE PEWS. 
 
 Ill this chantry, lying neglected on the ground, 
 is another mutilated figure of a knight. The 
 arnioiir (edge-mail) would lead to the conclusion 
 that his age is that of Henry III. or perhaps 
 earlier. 
 
 The ancient pews, or, as they are more com- 
 monly called, open seats, in this church are worthy 
 of notice, as affording good examples of plain seats 
 for imitation. Such seats might be made at but 
 a small expense, while the boldness of the mould- 
 ings produces a good effect notwithstanding their 
 general plainness They belong to a class which 
 is fortunately still very common in this part of the 
 country, but less so in many other districts. On 
 comparing the ridge mouldings of the seats with 
 the mullions of the east window of the north aisle, 
 which has been already described as early Perpen- 
 dicular work, it will be seen that the section is 
 
 nave by a screen of tracery work, now nearly gone. The one 
 at the north aisle, which was more curiously wrought, hath 
 been removed to make room for a late pew for the manor- 
 house of Little Haseley.” It is mainly owing to the tasteless 
 and unsightly custom (to say the least of it) so prevalent in 
 modern times, of building large and lofiy pews, that so much 
 of the beautiful carved work, once existing in our churches, 
 whether bench-seats or screens, has been removed. The love 
 of luxury and comfort, and what is no less to be condemned, 
 the love of distinction and exclusiveness under the sacred roof 
 of the church, cannot be too highly deprecated. 
 
 y Working drawings of these seats have since been pub- 
 lished by the Society, and have beeu copied in many places, as 
 well as in the new seats in this church. 
 
PLATE 12. 
 
 f 
 
 \ 
 
 OPEN SEAT. 
 
 UPPER MOULDING OF OPEN SEAT 
 
 I 
 
 3ET-OPF8 OF BUTTRESS OF OPEN SEAT. 
 
 MDLLION OF WINDOW. 
 
THE PEWS. 
 
 29 
 
 precisely the same. This amounts almost to a 
 proof that they arc of the same age, the beginning 
 of the fifteenth century. Pews of this (lescTij)tion 
 are frequently to be attributed to this age, some- 
 times perhaps to an earlier, though rarely ; much 
 more frequently however to a later, as the same 
 fashion, with a slight variation in the mouldings, 
 was continued throughout the whole of the fifteenth 
 and sixteenth centimes, and a considerable part of 
 the seventeenth. It is not uncommon to find jiews 
 of this descrij)tion with the date upon them of the 
 time of Janies I. or Charles I. Sometimes they 
 have the ends raised, forming a sort of poppie, 
 but this does not affect their general character. 
 Enclosed pews are very rarely to be found of a date 
 previous to the Great Rebellion, about which time 
 they appear to have been introduced, and gradually 
 to have crept into general use. We occasionally 
 find indeed a single large pew enclosed for the 
 family of the lord of the manor, and patron of the 
 church, of the time of Elizabeth or James I.; but 
 this had usually a canopy over it, and is altogether 
 of a different character from the modern high 
 enclosed box-pews. There are a few instances 
 of two^ such pews in the same church where thei c 
 
 * As at Rycote chapel, where probably the large pew on 
 the south side was erected for the accommodation of the 
 Princess Elizabeth, when detained at Rycote in the custody of 
 Lord Williams of Thame. The style of the pew on the north 
 
30 
 
 HASELEY CHURCH — PULPIT AND PONT. 
 
 have been two great families in the parish, or from 
 other causes ; but it would be difficult to meet with 
 a single instance of more than two enclosed seats 
 of this })criod in one church. Prior to the time of 
 Elizabeth the custom seems to have been for any 
 great family to build an aisle or a chautiy-chapel 
 attached to the church, which was fitted up for 
 their own use : but not so as to enclose a part 
 of the church itself, and take possession of it, or 
 purchase a faculty which no one has any right to 
 sell. 
 
 The PuLPiTa is of the style and fashion prevalent 
 in James the First’s time. The Font is ])lain, round, 
 and massive, of early character apparently, but with 
 no particular features. 
 
 On finishing onr survey and on comparing the 
 various parts of llaseley church with each other, 
 the great variety in their general aspect and 
 character cannot fail to arrest attention. For this 
 reason this chiu'ch may be recommended to espe- 
 cial notice, in that it presents almost a complete 
 succession of architectiwal styles, from the Tran- 
 
 side appears to be later than 1555, being a complete specimen 
 of fully developed Renaissance, or quasi-classic art. 
 
 * Pulpits in this neighbourhood are commonly of the time of 
 James I. or Charles I., sometimes of Elizabeth. The reading- 
 desks, or more properly, enclosed reading pews, very rarely 
 bear any marks of the same age, being generally much more 
 modern. 
 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
 
 31 
 
 sition or Early English nave and west doorway of 
 the commencement of the thirteenth, down to the 
 debased Gothic of the sixteenth century. 
 
 The nave, whilst it still retains something of the 
 grand, massive, and stern sini})licity of the Norman 
 style, yet in its pointed arches and diminished 
 proportions, disj)lays the germ of the perfect 
 Gothic, which was so soon to burst forth into 
 matiu'ity, as exhibited in the beautiful chancel. 
 
 If the dates assigned above to the nave and 
 chancel be correct, (and there seems to be no 
 reason for supposing them to be in en-or more 
 than a few jrcars at the farthest,) how great, how 
 surprising beyond all calculation, was the march 
 of architectm'al skill and excellence in the thir- 
 teenth century. 'J’he last few years of the twelfth, 
 and the commencement of the thirteenth century, 
 saw the erection of the cathedral of Christchurch, 
 and the nave of the chiu-ch in cpicstion, (to refer to 
 examples close at hand,) together with most of the 
 late Norman and Tiansition churches throughout 
 
 " Burke (“ Sublime and Beautiful”) defines the beautiful to 
 consist not only in proportion but in a great measure in small- 
 ness ; that is, proportionate smallness. The “ diminishing in 
 thickness” of the pillars is mentioned as one of the features of 
 the change of Norman into Gothic, or Pointed Architecture, 
 by hewell, “Arch. Notes,” third edition, p. 87. “ I judge 
 
 that beauty and sublimity be but the lesser and the great, sub- 
 lime, as magnified to giants, and beautiful, as diminished into 
 fairies.” Tupper’s Proverbial Philosophy, on “ Beauty.” 
 
32 
 
 GENEKAL REMARKS. 
 
 the country. At the end of the thirteenth, and 
 coirimenceinent of the fourteenth century, nothing 
 remained to be added with effect, and oiu* ancestors 
 beheld the full and perfect developement of archi- 
 tectural ])canty and expression, in the cathedrals of 
 York and Salisbury, &c., but above all, in West- 
 minster abbey; and, on a smaller seale, in the 
 choir of Merton College chapel, and the chaste 
 and beautiful chancel of Haseley church. 
 
 “ Ecclesiastical buildings of the best age, (ob- 
 seiwes Mr. Petit',) are evidently designed upon 
 certain principles of proportion, most difficult to 
 investigate or explain, but of which the architects 
 of that day seem to have had intuitive knowledge. 
 There is a manifest propriety, a carefid adjustment, 
 and a remarkable gracefulness of composition, which 
 j)crvadcs the whole, from the humblest and jdainest 
 village church to the most magniticent structures.” 
 
 One of the great leading principles, above spoken 
 of by ]\Ir. Petit, as aimed at by the architects of the 
 thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, seems to have 
 been, to endeavoiu* in all their religious edifices, 
 not only in those of greater pretensions, but even 
 in their village cluu’ches, as fiu* as so small a seale 
 admitted so boundless a thought to be suggested 
 to the mind, to cxj)rcss at one and the same time 
 the ideas of imity and injinili/^. 
 
 ' Petit's “Remarks on Cl'.urcli Arcliitecture," vol. i. j). G. 
 
 In an admirable address delivered to the Oxford Archi- 
 
uK.s i:k V I. It i: m A uks. 
 
 The late distinguished philosopher Coleridge has 
 told us the impression produced upon his mind by 
 the contemplation of the interior of a Gothic cathe- 
 dral. “ The principle,” he remarks, “ of Gothic 
 architectiu'c is itijinity made imaginable!' Indeed 
 all persons, even those of far less acute aesthetical 
 perception than the above-named gifted author, feel 
 more or less the imj)ression of which he speaks. 
 The mind, on entering any of our great cathedrals, 
 is at once drawn away from all recollection of the 
 world without, its limited range of thought, its 
 busy but narrow pursuits ; and is forced, as it 
 were, to contemplate the infinite expanse of eter- 
 nity, so vividly typified by the material building 
 around*. A feeling of deep awe, and a sense of 
 
 tectural Society, some years ago, by the Kev. Professor Sewell, 
 Fellow of Kxeter College, the above great and distinguishing 
 feature of Gothic architecture, and the several characteristics 
 of the Egyptian, Greek, and Roman styles, were dwelt upon 
 in a manner which made a lasting impression upon all who 
 were present on that occasion. See the “ Quarterly Review," 
 No. 137, vol. 6'9, p. 123; and the “English Review," No. 4, 
 pp. 402, 403. 
 
 * “ It was a noble idea to dedicate to the service of the 
 Infinite Creator a temple apparently indejinite in its e.\tent, 
 through which the eye might range without discerning the 
 limit or measure.” Petit’s “ Remarks,” ii. 24. See also Willis's 
 “ Remarks,” cap. ix. “ Ce fut par la grande elevation que les 
 homines chercherent a imprimer une haute idee de la majeste 
 divine, en frappant les yeux d'etonnement par la hauteur pro- 
 digieuse qu’ils donnerent a leurs tours.” M. Gilbert, “ Notice 
 de I’Eelisp Cathedrale de Beauvais.” 
 
 I) 
 
34 
 
 (JEM'KAI. KK MARKS. 
 
 the great mysteries of our religion, and of the life 
 which is to come, arc strongly impressed upon the 
 mind. Ihit together with this feeling of awe, this 
 partial glimpse into the boundless range of eternity, 
 sufficient almost to overwhelm the mind of man, 
 whose utmost powers are but limited and finite, 
 there is an elevation^ of the soul, a sublime feeling 
 of hope, of comfort, and faith, that humble though 
 we are, and but as a speck amidst the grandeur of 
 the temj)le of the Everlasting, a mere “worm” in 
 the presence of the Almighty, who seems to l)e in 
 all around, we are yet within the pale of His 
 Church, and safe under His juotection ; and shall 
 hereafter, when the things of earth shall have 
 {)assed away, and the tyj)e shall have been suc- 
 ceeded by the reality, “see Him as He is,” and 
 “ know, even as now we are known.” 
 
 We must only look, it is true, for the perfect 
 expression of these great ideas to our great cathe- 
 
 ^ “ The upward spring, the vertical tendency, is the key to 
 tlie whole ; whether, as in the pyramids and obelisks of Egypt, 
 it imply the natural yearning of the human heart to the ‘ blest 
 abodes’ of an uncovenanted futurity ; or faith, better assured^ 
 in the resurrection of the Redeemer, and of the Churcli in His 
 person; or tlie joyful anticipation of tliat continual upspring- 
 ing approximation towards the fount of wisdom, the divine 
 vision, which we are warranted to look forward to as the bliss 
 of eternity.’’ Lord Lindsay, “ Sketclies of the History of 
 Christian Art,” ii. 22. See Dr. Whewell’s “ Architectural 
 Notes,” &c., third edition, pp. 20, 240 ; “ Quarterly Review,” 
 No. 137, vol. 69, pp. 133, 134 ; and Article vii. “ English Re- 
 view,” No. 4. 
 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
 
 35 
 
 drals, where the one uniform thougli extensive 
 ground-plan, and the yet ever varying proportions 
 of the details®, the retiring aisles, (often double, 
 sometimes even treble,) and still beyond them the 
 numerous chapels attached externally, all however 
 bound into one great whole by their continuous 
 periphery, and their common roof, suggest an in- 
 definite, boundless range of extent, far greater than 
 the real space occupied. 
 
 * Scarcely any two of the main arches, or main piers, of 
 Westminster abbey, are exactly identical in their proportions, 
 or their subsidiary parts, such as side shafts, mouldings, &c. 
 Even the two sides forming one arch are in many cases of 
 slightly dissimilar curves. In a Grecian temple any deviation 
 from exact correspondence of all the parts to each other, would 
 be fatal to the general effect. In a Gothic edifice, on the con- 
 trary, the details may, and should, vary infinitely. Hence the 
 former building well expresses the idea of unity, but that of 
 unity alone. Whilst the latter not only expresses this idea, 
 equally well with the Greek style, but suggests the still grander 
 thought of infinity. A passage in his “ Notes from Life,” by 
 the author of Philip Van Artei elde, though intended to apply 
 to the power and character of female beauty, is equally appli- 
 cable to that of Architecture. “ Lord Bacon has said ‘ that 
 there is no excellent beauty, without some strangeness in the 
 proportion,’ from which I infer (remarks Mr. Taylor) that the 
 beauty which had individuality was alone excellent in his eyes; 
 and I believe this to be so far prevalent amongst mankind, that 
 whilst the name of beauty is given to perfection of symmetry, 
 the power of beauty is felt in a slight deviation from it, just 
 sufficient to individualize without impairing. It is this peculi- 
 arity, this ‘ some strangeness,’ which lays hold of the imagi- 
 nation.” See “ Quarterly Review,” No. 137, vol. 69, pp. 137, 
 138. 
 
36 
 
 (JENERAI. REMARKS. 
 
 But although we cannot expect to be impressed 
 in this manner by a contemplation of the generality 
 of our village or coimtry chimches, tliroughout 
 England, still all of them, even the hmnblest, dis- 
 play in their several degrees the germ of the great 
 principles above alluded to ; and no less interesting 
 is it to trace the gradual unfolding of these great 
 leading thoughts of the architects of old, as dis- 
 played by their humbler buildings, than to con- 
 template their full development, as exhibited by 
 their cathedrals and abbev churches. The latter, 
 however, appears for years ])ast, to have almost 
 exclusively absorbed attention. Numerous are the 
 works which have been put forth, at various times, 
 to illustrate the architecture and antiquities of our 
 cathedrals and larger chiurches ; whilst, on the 
 other hand, the village chm-ches of England have 
 been comparatively neglected ; and most undc- 
 senedly so ; for, in addition to the interest called 
 forth in tracing, on a smaller scale, the principles 
 above spoken of, it is from a sm^ey of the latter 
 that we may hope to arrive at definite notions of 
 the general character of each age**. It can hardly 
 be doubted that much light would be thrown upon 
 the ecclesiastical history' of oiu* country, in each 
 
 “ The relation of country churches to large and elaborate 
 cathedrals, is in all Christian countries interesting and instruc- 
 tive.” Dr. Whewell, “Architectural Notes,’’ Ac., third edition, 
 p. 238. 
 
f;ENi;KAL KKMAKKS. 
 
 37 
 
 succeeding century, by a careful examination of the 
 rise and progress of architectiu-al science, and a 
 comparison of the general character of each period 
 with that of others. It can scarcely be conceived 
 that the religious and ecclesiastical character of the 
 times of llenr)’ III. and the three Edwards, can be 
 identical with that of Queen Anne’s reign, still less 
 with that of the age which beheld the erection of 
 the red brick chapels of the latter half of the last, 
 and the stuccoed churches of the commencement 
 of the present centur} . 
 
 These remarks may be concluded ^^^th an earnest 
 recommendation to the younger members of this 
 Society to visit and examine the church of Great 
 Haseley. It will well repay their attention, and 
 will serve moreover as a good practice-ground for 
 those of us who are desirous of practically a])plying 
 what we read in the many excellent and elaborate 
 works on Architecture with which our library 
 abounds. For without personal examination, and 
 the habit of observation, the characteristics of the 
 various styles, as they succeed each other, are not 
 easily aj)preciated or retained in the memory ; much 
 less the true principles apprehended of Gothic or 
 Ecclesiastical Ai'chitectiu’e. 
 
 The great object of our Society is to encoiu-age 
 the study of Gothic Architecture in Oxford. That 
 this object has, in no inconsiderable degree, been 
 
38 
 
 OBJECTS OK THIS SOCIETV. 
 
 already* attained, is open to obserA'ation. An im- 
 pulse has already been given, in this jjlace, which 
 has directed attention to the study of a science, 
 which, connected as it is so intimately with all that 
 the mind holds sacred, and with the ecclesiastical 
 and civil history of our country, cannot fail (when 
 the difficulties which of necessity meet us on the 
 threshold are overcome) at once to charm and 
 arrest attention ; and to improve the mind, and 
 lead in time to practical results, in the revival of 
 that which has so long been suffered to fall into 
 decay. 
 
 Much may be done by individuals. Observation 
 and comparison are the handmaids of knowledge. 
 By the exertions of the members of this Society we 
 may hope, in process of time, to collect together a 
 mass of evidence drawn from a survey of our village 
 and other churches. By recording and preserving 
 in our library accimate and technical descriptions 
 of these, together uith whatever observations the 
 examination and comparison" may suggest, we 
 place it within the reach both of ourselves and 
 others, to see at a glance the state of architecture 
 in any district*. 
 
 ' This refers to the early part of the year 1840. 
 
 *' “ It is only by comparison of resemblances and differences 
 that our observations become either instructive or interesting.” 
 — Whewell’s “Architectural Notes,” third edition, p. 40. 
 
 • The architectural observer by “ recording the peculiarities 
 [of churches] may contribute to throw light upon the history 
 
OBJKCTS Of THIS SOCIKTY. 
 
 3i) 
 
 This habit of committing to paper the architec- 
 tural results of oiu vacation rambles will be of the 
 greatest service, not only to om’selves from the 
 knowledge we shall acquire in the examination, but 
 also to the Society, and we may hope to the Church 
 at large, by contributing to preserve what yet re- 
 mains of a better age ; and by thus extending the 
 knowledge of the principles of the science, as car- 
 ried out into operation by onr ancestors, encour- 
 aging imitation of what is confessedly beautilul, 
 though it be old, rather than the adoption of our 
 own views, and the dictates of modern taste. 
 
 of architecture ; for in this study, as in all others, any sound 
 speculation must he founded on the accurate knowledge ot an 
 extensive collection of particular instances.” Ibid., p. 133, 
 

 PLAN 
 
A P P E X 1) I X A. 
 
 “The churdi of liaseley is a parochial mother church, 
 havinj; produced two chapels within her precincts ; viz. 
 that of Rycote, and the chapel of liaseley Court. But 
 the mother hath survived one of her daughters, the last 
 being demolished, and a kitchen’^ erected on its site; 
 ‘ egregium opus, capelhi destructa, culina est erecta ; 
 quam sapimus rclligionem !’ and the other hath almost 
 forsaken and forgotten the mother.” — Delafield’s MS. 
 
 Dimensions of liaseley church according to j\Ir. 
 Dclafield. 
 
 “ The church is in length 126 ft. ; [24 ft. shorter than 
 the length of King Solomon’s temple at Jerusalem, 
 after Prideaux’s reckoning;] of this the tower is 16 ft. 
 The chancel from the screen under the rood-loft to the 
 east wall 40 ft., and in width 19 ft. The nave, in breadth 
 from the south door to the north side, is 45 ft. The 
 tower is 60 ft. high.” 
 
 Dimensions of liaseley church according to late 
 measurements. 
 
 Total interior length of the cliurch from inside the 
 west door to the eastern wall of the chancel, 127 ft. 
 9 in. ; — of this, 
 
 * The chapel of liaseley Court has been in some degree restored to a 
 better u.se. It is now the library of the mansion, and its fine open timber 
 roof has been carefully restored by the present owner, Walter Long, Esq. 
 The east window remains perfect, and is in the style of the early part of 
 the fourteenth century, agreeing very closely with one in the church. The 
 side windows are square headed, and of no very decided character, but 
 some of them may be of the same age, though others are evidently later. 
 
42 
 
 Al’PEXmX A. 
 
 Tlie tower is 13 ft. 6 in. in interior length, and 12 ft. 
 
 3 in. in interior breadth ; its eastern wall (pierced 
 with the arch) is 4 ft. 2 in. in thickness ; its 
 western M all (in mIucIi is the entrance doorway) 
 is 4 ft. 4 in. thick. 
 
 Nave — interior length, (exclusive of the tower,) to 
 the steps under the chancel-arch, 63 ft. and 3 in. : 
 total interior uidth 46 ft. and 1 in.; of this the 
 north aisle is 11 ft. 5 in. wide, the south 15 ft. 
 1 1 in., and the piers in transvei’se thickness 2 ft. 
 
 4 in., lea^dng 14 ft. 1 in. for the width of the nave, 
 exclusive of aisles, and the thickness of the pier 
 arches. 
 
 Tlie north and south aisles are respectively 67 ft. 
 
 6 in., and 62 ft. 10 in. in interior length. 
 
 The chancel-arch is 3 ft. 8 in. in thickness. 
 
 The chancel itself, in length, from the interior of 
 the east wall to the steps under the chancel-arch, 
 is 43 ft. 2 in. : in width, at the eastern end, it is 
 19 ft. 5 in., at the western end, 19 ft. 8 in. 
 Delafield gives the following dates and inscriptions 
 on the six bells in the church tower, in his time. 
 
 1. . . . 1658. 
 
 2. Honoui’ the King. 1641. 
 
 3. Thomas Plater and Kogcr Hurst, church- 
 wardens, William and Robert Cor. 1710. 
 
 4. Fear God. 1641. 
 
 5. Love God. 1641. 
 
 6. WiUiam Hinton and Thomas New. 1708. 
 
APPENDIX B. 
 
 LIST OF RECTORS OF THE PARISH OF HASELEY, &c. 
 
 “Dorchester*’ was under tlie Saxous a place of 
 some importance, being the first episcopal see erected 
 for the kingdom of the West Saxons. The first bishop 
 was St. Biriuus, mIio came to this country only forty 
 years after the mission of St. Augustine, in A.D. 634'.” 
 Haseley Mas, therefore, at first subject to Dorchester, 
 but after a continuance of more than 450 years the 
 see Mas removed to Lincoln, (in 1092,) and Haseley 
 became subject to the new ecclesiastical jurisdiction. 
 Accordingly it is in the “ Lincoln Register” that we 
 meet with the first notice of the rtcarage or parsonage 
 of Haseley. In 1542, the bishopric of Oxford was 
 taken out of that of Lincoln, when Haseley again 
 changed its allegiance. 
 
 Extract^ from the register of Hugh de Welles, bishop 
 of Lincoln; m4io presided over the diocese from 1209 
 to 1234-5, M'hcn he died. 
 
 “ Dies Mercurii proxima post festum beatae Marie 
 !Magdalene;” [the year not given.] 
 
 “ Eadem die apud Banncbiriam contulit Dominus 
 Episcopus auctoritate coucilii Willelmo de Newent \"i- 
 cariam ecclesiae de Haseleia, et ipsum in ea Hcarium 
 
 •> For the history of the diocese of Dorchester, &c., see the Memoir of 
 Dorchester Abhey Church, p. 54, &c. 
 
 ‘ Bedae Eccl. Hist., vol. iii. p. 7. 
 
 ■' The Memoir is indebted to Edward James tV’illson, Esq., of Lincoln, 
 for the above extract. The arms of the bishop were formerly to be seen 
 in the church windows. See list. No. 4, p. (lO. 
 
It 
 
 Al’HKMMX «. 
 
 iustituit. Consistit autem dicta vicaria secundum pro- 
 visioneni per Archidiacoiium Oxoniensem factara in 
 omnibus obvencionibus Altaris tarn dc Matrici ecclesia 
 quam capelUs ct in omnil)us minutis decimis totius 
 parocliiae et treccsima acra de dominico Rogcri Pipard 
 cum decimis liladi cotarioram, et in terra, cpiaj vocatur 
 Buttas inter BilcMell et Guidiche ad mansum ibi faci- 
 endum, ct in omnibus decimis garbarum de tota nlla 
 dc Rucot Fnlconis excepto tantum racionabili Fulcoiiis 
 dominico. Consistit etiam in omnibus decimis gar- 
 bai*um de toto dominico Roberti de Columbes et om- 
 nibus terris datis pro scrvicio capellarum, scilicet de 
 terra quam Rogenis viccconies de Leu tenuit de Roberto 
 persona de Ileseleia ct in terris quas AValterus Wudrou 
 et Hugo filius Serlonis ct Osbertus carpentarius et 
 Agnes cauccllaria tennerunt de eodem ct omni Marie- 
 crofta et omnibus pertinentibus ct senitiis ad dictas 
 terras spectantibus. Addidit autem dominus cpiscopus 
 huic provisioni ut proprium illius ecclcsiaj bospitium 
 Arebidiaeono faciat et vicarius sinodalia solvat. Ad- 
 missus est idem.” 
 
 Tlie above institution of William de Newent must 
 have taken place before the year 1223, from which 
 date Bishop Kennctt [Par. Ant., vol. ii. p. 325. edit. 
 1818, Oxon.] gives the following list^. 
 
 RECTORES ECCLESI.E DE HASELEV, Com. OxOll. 
 
 A.U. 
 
 1223. Rob. de Wicheford acolitus ad cccl. de Hcscll ad 
 pres. Rog. Pippard, facta prius inquis. per Archid. 
 Oxon. Rot. Hug. Welles, pont. anno 13. 
 
 1227. Will, de Pochleya subdiac. ad eccl. de llaseleya 
 
 ' Bishop Keniiett's list was most probably taken from the Lincoln 
 Register. Sir Henry Ellis has kindly commtinicated some eicerpta from 
 the same source, with which the bishop’s list very nearly eoineides, though 
 the latter is rather more full. 
 
APPENDIX U. 
 
 -i:> 
 
 ud pres, procuratoris Will' Pipard. Rot. Hug. 
 Welles, an. 18. 
 
 1243. Anno 9 Rob. Grosthead, 7° Id. Nov. consolidata 
 est vicaria eccl. de Hasel personatui. 
 
 1260. Hen. de Bakepnz. subd. ad eccl. de Hasseley vac. 
 per mort. Will' ad pres, dfii Rad’i fil. Nicb’i. 
 
 in Kennett’s List, query ‘fil. Nigelli’'\ milit. 
 Rot. Ric. Gravesend Episc. Line, anno 3. 
 
 1273. lien. fil. Job*, fil. Kigelli subd. pres. per. dfium 
 Rad. Pipard inilit. ad eecl. de Hasele vac. per 
 mort. Henrici 10“ Kal. Jan. Rot. ib. an. 16. 
 
 1305. Will, de Ilandlo pres, per Hug. le Despenser^ 
 milit. &c. Reg. Dalderby. 
 
 1318. Rob. de Haulo p’b’r. pres, per dom. Hug. le 
 Despencer sen. milit. Ibid. 
 
 1337. Thomas de Maldon, cPicus pres, per dom. Job. 
 Engayne mil. attorn, general, dfii AVilfi Bohun*^ 
 Comit. Northt. Reg. Burghersch. 
 
 1340. Permutatio inter Tho. de ^laldon rector, eccl. de 
 Hasele et Ric'um Lee rector, eccl. de Bradewell 
 Line. dioc. Ibid. 
 
 1349. Ric. Gerland ePeus pres, per dom. Will, de 
 Bolnm^ Com. Northt. et constabular. Angli® ad 
 eccl. de Haselee. Ibid. 
 
 Reg. Berners ePeus pres, per W. Bohun Com. 
 
 Nor. et Const. Ang. Ibid. 
 
 1350. Permutatio inter Reginaldum Berners rect. ecel. 
 de Haselee et Nic. de Neuton rect. eccl. de De- 
 peden Lond. dioc. Ibid. 
 
 1355. Permutatio inter dom. Nich. de Newenton rector, 
 eccl. de Hasele Line. dioc. et mag’rum Joh. de 
 Sayceio rector, cccl. de Martley Wigorn. dioc. et 
 Canonicum prebendalem ecclesiarum Exon, et 
 Glasneye Exon. dioc. Reg. Ginewell. 
 
 f See list of lords of the manor, p. 66. 
 
40 
 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 1300. Rob. de Walsham pres, per Regem ad eccl. de 
 Hasele admiss. 15 Kal. Jan. Ibid. 
 
 1368. Permutatio inter Tho. Strete de Kneswortb 
 thesaiir. S. Pauli Loud, et Henr. "Wakefeld 
 rector, eccl. de Hasele et prebendar. prebendae 
 S. Pancratii in eccl. S. Pauli Lond. et preben- 
 dar. de Keteu in Maldon in eccl. S. Martini 
 !Magni Lond. Reg. Bokynyham. 
 
 1385. Permutatio inter d’num Tho. Strete rectorem de 
 Hasele et prebendar. de Keten in eccl. S. !Mar- 
 tini Magni Lond. et d’num "Will. Lye rect. eccl. 
 de Hadham Lond. dioc. Ibid. 
 
 1380. Permutatio inter AVill. Lye rect. eccl. de Hasele 
 et mag. Job. Prophete rect. eccl. de Adesliam 
 Cant. dioc. Ibid. 
 
 Raymundus Pelegrine Canon. Line, prebendar. 
 
 de Mylton manerii pres, per d’num Tho. Dncem 
 Clone.* ad. eccl. de Haseley per resign. Job. 
 Prophete ex causa permutationis de ipsa cum 
 dicta preb. de ^Mylton. Ibid. 
 
 1404. Permutatio inter Walt. Nicoll rect. eccl. de 
 ILiseley, et Laur. Staunde Vicar. Eccl. de Leuk- 
 uore. 
 
 1412. Job. Collys p'b’r. pres, per dom. Will. Burgebier 
 mil. at AnnamK comitissaiu Stafford cousortem 
 suam ad eccl. de Haseley per mort. mag’ri Job. 
 de Haseley*’. Reg. Repyuydon. 
 
 1453. Job. Parj’s clbcus pres, per Margaretam^ Re- 
 ginam Ang. filiam Regis Siciliae et Jerusalem ad 
 
 » See list of lords of the manor, page 67. 
 
 h The parish of Haseley appears to have given its name to a family. 
 The Joh. de Haseley mentioned above is not the only one of the name re- 
 corded in the annals of the time. At the battle of .\zincourt (1415) a 
 George Haseley was, together with Thomas Gresele and Mons. Wm. Hud~ 
 dleston chevalier, (all connected with the parish,) in the retinue of Sire 
 H.mlfe Shyrley. 
 
APPENDIX B. 
 
 47 
 
 eccl. de Ilaseley per resign. Nicli. Neuton. Rey. 
 Chedioorth. 
 
 1468. Permutatio inter Mag. Rob. Kaynell deer. doct. 
 rectorem eccl. de Northwroxliale Sarum dioc. et 
 mag’ rum Job. Pan's LL.B. rect. eccl’iae de Hase- 
 ley magna xma cum Capella de Rcycote* eidem 
 eccl’iae annexa, et ab eadem depeiidente de pa- 
 trouatu Elizabethae Reginae Angliae. Ibid. 
 
 1472. 15 !Maii. Dom. Tho. Boteler* rector eccl’iae S. 
 Botielplii extra Bishopsgatc Lond. et !Magister 
 Rob. Kaynell deer. doct. rect. eccl. de Ilaseley 
 Line. dioc. permutaut. Rey. Rotherham. 
 
 1494. Mag. Job. Morgan deer. doct. pres, per Deca- 
 num et Cauonicos de AVyndesor ad eccl. de 
 Ilaseley per mort. m’gri Tho. Boteler. Rey. 
 Russtl. 
 
 1496. !Mag’r Nidi. Beaumont, A.M. pres, per Decan. 
 et Capit. liberae Capellae regiae S. Gcorgii infra 
 castrum de Wyndesor ad eccl. de Ilaseley per 
 cessionem mag’ri Job'* Morgan. Rey. Smyth. 
 Ep. Line. 
 
 1504. Mag. Tbo. Haropp A.M. p’b’r pres, per Decan. 
 
 et Canon, de AVyndesor ad eccl. de Haseley. Ibid. 
 1522. Rog. Lupton deer. Doct. per mort. ult. Incumb. 
 ad pres. Eorundem. Rey. Lonyl. 
 
 “ Rector Royer Lupton was Provost of Eton College.” 
 Delafield. 
 
 Bishop Kennett has a notice of four other rectors, 
 (given below,) but Delafield’s INIS., which commences 
 its account of the rectors with the name of Thomas 
 Butler, (see above sub. an. 1472,) and which seems 
 very uncertain until about 1630, has no notice of them. 
 The two aceounts have therefore been kept separate. 
 
 * This coiifirnis tlie date of the chapel; see p. 142. 
 
 ‘ See the engraving of Rector Thomas Buthr's brass monument, p. 72. 
 
18 
 
 aphi;m)IX n. 
 
 1573. 29 Nov. Vincent Twke cl’ic’ institutus in eccl’ia 
 de ]Magna llaseley per resign. Job. Apleton ad 
 pres. Decan. et Canon. IVindesor. Reg. Parker. 
 Arch. Ep. Cant. 
 
 1597. 3 Maii. Geo. Lawson. A.B. ed. eccl. de Haseley 
 magn. per resign. Walter Ilayle per concess. a 
 Decano et Canon. WjTidesor. Reg. Whitgift. 
 Arch. Ep. Cant. 
 
 LIST OF RECTORS FROM DELAFIELD’s MS. 
 
 “The earliest account that I can gather (says Dela- 
 field) of the rectors of this church is hut httle more 
 than 200 years standing ; and even since that period 
 it is not complete.’’ 
 
 Roger Lupton, LL.D. provost of Eton college, resigned 
 the rectory of llaseley in 1525. 
 
 John Lei.and, rector of llaseley, 1542, died 1552. 
 “ J. Lcland was the famous antiquary, whom 
 Camden (Britt. App. p. 10) calls ‘antiquarius 
 doctissinius.’ lie was horn in London, and edu- 
 cated at St. Paul’s school : then at Christ’s college, 
 Cambridge : then at All Souls’ (college, Oxford ; 
 travelled, made friends of learned foreigners, \az. 
 Budaeus, Faber, Panlus Emilius, and Ruelhis, took 
 orders, became chaplain to King Henry A’lIL, by 
 whom he was encouraged in his antiqinirian re- 
 searches, and was made rector of llaseley, April 3, 
 1542, and about the same time was made one of 
 the canons of the college, (now Christ Church,) 
 founded at Oxford by Cardinal Wolsey, and in 
 1545 his name appears uith those of the other 
 canons to an instniment under their common 
 seal, to surrender up that college into the com- 
 missioners’ hands for King Henry "S' III.” 
 
 Owen Oglethorpe, S.T.P., rector of Haseley, 1552, 
 resigned ? “ Dr. Oglethorpe was elected pre- 
 
APPENDIX B. 
 
 49 
 
 sident of Magdalen college, Oxford, 1535, of M hich 
 office lie was deprived Sept. 27, 1 552, but in 1553 he 
 was restored and held it until 1555, when he finally 
 quitted that post. In 1534, being then dean of 
 Windsor, president of Magdalen college, and rector 
 of Hascley, he was selected as one of the dinnes 
 to dispute with Archbishop Cranmer, Bishops Lati- 
 mer and Ridley at Oxford. (See Fox, ' Acts and 
 Mon.,' vol. iii. p. 44.) In 1556 he was consecrated 
 bishop of Carlisle, and however pertinacious of his 
 own principles, or conscientious to reduce Pro- 
 testants by arguments and comiction, he was far 
 from that sanguine and violent spirit of persecution 
 which raged in those days. For Fuller Worth.,’ 
 p. 218) has left this note on record to the honour 
 of his humanity. ‘ In the reign of Queen ^lary 
 there were no martyrs in the county of Cumber- 
 land, because such as favoured the Reformation 
 were connived at by Dr. Owen Oglethorpe, the 
 comieous bishop of Carlisle. Upon Queen Mary’s 
 death, Sunday, Jan. 15, 1558-9, he had the honour 
 to crown that peerless princess Queen Elizabeth, 
 according to the order of the Roman Pontifical ; he 
 being the only man among the bishops, that could 
 be brought upon by her to perform that office, the 
 rest refusing to assist at the solemnity. lie was, 
 however, afterwards one of the dissenting bishops 
 to the act of supremacy, and was one of the nine 
 Romish bishops and divines who maintained in 
 Westminster abbey the doctrines of Rome against 
 the same number of Protestants.’ (Burnet’s 
 ‘ Reform.,’ ii. 388.) In 1559, he and the rest of 
 the Romish bishops were deprived for refusing to 
 take the oath of the ([ueen’s supremacy.” 
 
 Richard Martindale, rector of Haseley, died 1555. 
 
 E 
 
60 
 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 John Brown, S.T.B., rector of Haseley, died 
 
 John Harding, S.T.P., rector of Haseley, 1597, died 
 1610. “ John Harding M as elected president of 
 
 Magdalen eoUege, Oxford, Feb. 22, 1607, in M'hieh 
 year, he with the rest appointed for that great 
 M ork entered on the neM’ translation of the Bible, 
 by the appointment of King James I.'' 
 
 Charles Sunnibank, S.T.P., rector of Haseley, died 
 1638. (See No. 4. List of Monuments, p. 80.) 
 
 Christopher AVren, D.D., rector of Haseley, 1638, 
 ejected . . . ? “ M-as younger brother of Dr. Matthew 
 M'ren, bishop of Ely.^' The son of the reetor of 
 Haseley, “of the same name, was the famous 
 architect. Sir Chr. "Wren.” 
 
 Thomas Soame, D.D., rector of Haseley, 1645, died 
 1649. See Fuller’s “"Worthies of Suffolk,” p. 74. 
 
 Kdward Corbett, D.D., rector of Haseley, 1649, died 
 1657. “ Dr. Corbett’s was the fifteenth signature 
 
 of the fifty-nine clergymen, mIio haA-ing acted 
 for the parliament, yet signed a protest against 
 King Charles’s murder, being then minister of 
 Croydon.” (See List of Monuments, No. 6. p. 81.) 
 
 Anthony Stephens, reetor of Haseley, 1657 ; ejected 
 1660. 
 
 Peter Wentworth, D.D., rector of Haseley, 1660; 
 died 1661. “He Mas dean of Armagh, but fled 
 on the rebeUion breaking out in Ireland, and 
 Mould not return thither.” 
 
 Bruno Ryves, D.D., rector of Haseley, 1661, died 
 1677. “ In 1635 he was domestic chaplain to 
 
 King Charles 1., and afterwards dean of Chichester ; 
 in 1660 he was appointed chaplain in ordinary’ to 
 King Charles II., and dean of "Windsor. 
 
 John Durel, D.D., rector of Haseley, 1677, died 1683 : 
 “ was born in .Tersev. M ood says of him, (^ Fasti,’ 
 
APPENDIX B. 
 
 51 
 
 vol. ii. p. 180,) ‘ a judicious and laborious advocate 
 for the Church of England both in word and deed/ 
 In 1661 he was minister of the French church in 
 the Savoy, and in 1677 was made dean of Windsor/’ 
 See Wood’s “Athenae,” vol. ii. p. 732, from which 
 the following is an extract. " He was a person 
 of unbiassed and fixed principles, untainted and 
 steady loyalty, as constantly adhering to the sink- 
 ing cause and interest of his sovereign in the worst 
 of times, who dared ufith an unshaken and un- 
 daunted resolution to stand up and maintain the 
 honour and dignity of the English Church, when 
 she was in ker lowest and most deplorable con- 
 dition. He wrote much ; the most celebrated of 
 his works is his Vindicice Ecclesice Anglicance in 
 opposition to Baxter and the other non-con- 
 formists. He w'as besides the translator of the 
 Liturgy into Latin, dedicated to King Charles II., 
 the just character of which Liturgy the translator 
 thus gives in his dedication. 
 
 ‘ !Mihi certe dubium non est, si omnes Ec- 
 
 clesise quae Christum generis humaui Redemp- 
 torem profitentur, in unam eandemque S. Liturgise 
 formam consentirent, (quod optandum,) quin hsec 
 nostra reliquas omnes qua? apud varias ecolesias in 
 usu sunt, multis suffragiis Hnceret, ut sola deinceps 
 ubique obtineret, si quid apud illas valerent cum 
 puriore venerandaque antiquitate conformitas, et 
 aurea inter extrema mediocritas. In ea enim ipsi 
 Pontificii nihil desiderare, in ea nihil culpare Re- 
 format cujuscunque confessionis, jure possunt; 
 adeo est a partium studio ahena; adeo ad accen- 
 dendum zelum erga Deum, et charitatem erga 
 proximxim, adeo ad humilitatem et delictorum 
 poenitentiam ingenerandam apta nata ; adeo deni- 
 E 2 
 
52 
 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 que ad genuinam Cliristianaj pietatis iudolem, 
 quae nec nimio ceremoiiiarum apparatii obrui, nec 
 omni earum adminiculo, modo absit superstitio, 
 prorsus destitui debct, bine illinc attemperata.’” 
 
 John de Saumerez, rector of Haseley . . . .? died 1697 : 
 “was bom in Guernsey. He was made dean of 
 Guernsey by King Charles II., and canon of 
 Windsor, 1671.’’ 
 
 Gregory Hascard, D.D., rector of Haseley, 1697, 
 died 1708, “Mas rector of St. Clement Danes in 
 London, Mlien that church Avas ncAA-ly built ; he 
 Avas installed dean of Windsor, Sept. 29, 1684.” 
 
 Thomas Manningham, D.D., rector of Haseley, 1708, 
 resigned . ... ? 
 
 ♦John Robinson, D.D., rector of Haseley, 1709, re- 
 signed . . . ? “ M as often employed by King William 
 HI. and Queen Anne in foreign negociations, being 
 as eminent a statesman, as he M as an ecclesiastic. 
 He A\as one of the tAAO British plenipotentiaries 
 at Utrecht. In 1711 he Avas made Lord PriAT 
 Seal, having prcAiously been consecrated bishop 
 of Bristol, holding the deauerj’ of Windsor and 
 rectorj’ of Haseley in commendam. In 1713 he 
 was translated to London.” 
 
 ♦George Verney, Lord U'llloughby de Broke, rector 
 of Haseley, 1713, died . . . .? 
 
 ♦Penniston (or Penyston) Booth, D.D., dean of Wind- 
 sor, and rector of Haseley, 1729, died 1765. He 
 Avas rector of Haseley at the time Mr. Delafield 
 Avrote his history of the parish, &c. 
 
 ♦The Hon. Frederick Keppel, bishop of Exeter, and 
 dean of Windsor, rector of Haseley, 1765, died 
 1777. 
 
 ♦The Hon. John Harley, dean of Windsor and rector 
 of Haseley, 1778, died 1788. 
 
APPENDIX H. 
 
 53 
 
 ♦John Douglas, bishop of Carlisle, dean of Windsor 
 and rector of Haseley, 1788, translated to Salis- 
 bnr}', 1791. 
 
 ♦The Hon. James Cornwallis, bishop of Lichfield 
 and Coventiy, dean of Windsor and rector of 
 Ilascley, 1793. He succeeded as fourth Earl Corn- 
 wallis 1823. 
 
 ♦Charles Manners Sutton, bishop of Norwich, ap- 
 pointed dean of Windsor and rector of Haseley 
 in 1794, archbishop of Canterbury, 1805. 
 
 ♦Hon. Edward Legge, dean of Windsor and rector of 
 Haseley, 1805; bishop of Oxford, 1815. 
 
 ♦Hon. Henry Hobart, dean of Windsor and rector 
 of Haseley, 1816; died IMay, 1846. 
 
 (♦By an act passed in the reign of Queen Anne, the 
 rectory of Haseley was united to the deanery of 
 M'indsor, hanng been first conveyed by exchange to 
 the crown. In this act it was prortded that as the 
 dean could not reside permanently at Haseley, he 
 should nominate a curate to the bishop, whom it en- 
 dowed with an annuity or rent-charge on the glebe 
 and tithes. He was therefore a perpetual endowed 
 curate. MTien the act of 3 and 4 Victoria for giving 
 effect to the fourth report of the Ecclesiastical Com- 
 missioners was passed, a clause M*as introduced sepa- 
 rating the rectory of Haseley from the deanery of 
 Windsor, and giving to future deans as compensation 
 a second canonry at Windsor; and as the queen had 
 given up the patronage of the rectorj’’ to carry out the 
 recommendations of the commissioners, and the dean 
 was compensated by an additional canonry, there was 
 no one uith a claim to the lirtng but the perpetual 
 curate, the Rev. Wilham Birkett. The act therefore 
 reseiwed the first presentation to him, should he be 
 
54 
 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 curate Avhen it became vacant, the advoAvson 
 
 afterAvards to the dean and canons of Windsor. 
 
 In !May, 1846, the liAing became vacant by the death 
 of the Hon. Dr. Hobart, dean of Windsor, and in the 
 July follnAA-ing the Rev. W. Birkett Avas instituted to 
 the benefice by the bishop of Oxford ''.) 
 
 Delafield sums up the historj' of the advoAvson of 
 Haseley in these Avords : “ From the Conquest to the 
 year 1482, (22 of Ed. IV.,) its advoAV'son aars in the 
 patronage of the particular lords of its lands, viz., 
 Milo Crispin, the Bassets, the Bigods, Thomas de Bro- 
 therton, the Bohuns, Thomas de Woodstock duke of 
 Gloucester, Stafford earl of Buckingham, King Henry 
 IV., &c. &c., King EdAvard IV . ; since Avhich time, till 
 1708, by A-irtue of a grant made to them by that king, 
 the parsonage and perpetual advoAAson of the rectory 
 have been in the dean and canons of the free chapel of 
 St. George AAdthin the castle of Windsor. In 1708, by 
 an act of parliament then passed, it aa'rs for ever an- 
 nexed to the deanery of Windsor : and a perpetual 
 resident curate established, to be appointed by the 
 dean.” 
 
 It appears, hoAvever, from the Lincoln register, and 
 from Bishop Kennett’s list, giA-en before, that Mr. Dela- 
 field is not quite correct in his above statement. The 
 Pypard family appear to have presented to the liAing 
 in the year 1223, in 1227, and again in 1273. Hugh le 
 Despencer (see List of Lords of the Manor, p. 66) ap- 
 pears as the next patron ; then the Bohun family, (see 
 
 k The memoir is much indebted to the present rector of Haseley, the 
 Rev. AVilliam Birkett, who has kindly furnished the above statement. 
 The rectory house has lately been restored, presen'ing the ancient hall, 
 which has a handsome oak roof. Some encaustic tiles were found during 
 the restoration of the house, apparently of the age of Henry III. 
 
API'ENUIX ». 
 
 55 
 
 p. 66.) The presentation in the year 1360 appears to 
 have been hy King Edward III., though the Bohuns 
 were still lords of the manor. In 1386, Thomas duke of 
 Gloueester, wlio married Eleanor de Bohun, (see p. 67,) 
 presented. In 1412, Anne countess of Stafford, the 
 daughter of the duke of Gloucester and Eleanor de 
 Bohun, was the patroness. In 1453, Margaret (queen 
 of Henry VI.) presented; then Elizabeth Woodville 
 (queen of Edward IV.) in 1468; after which date the 
 dean and canons of Vindsor appear as patrons. 
 
APPENDIX C. 
 
 LIST OF LORDS OF THE MANOR OF HASELEY, &c. 
 
 Compiled principally from Delafield's MS. and corroborated by 
 other authorities. 
 
 ■\Veever in his book on “Funeral Monuments,” says, 
 "In the register of the Gray Friars in London I find 
 this definition of a funeral monument ; ' monnmentum 
 est quasi monens mentemf " and he quotes St. Augustine, 
 “ who says (he remarks) in his booke ‘ de cura pro 
 mortuis,' ‘ monumentum eo quod moneat mentem, id est 
 admoneat, nuncupatuFf ” 
 
 A brief consideration therefore (in connection with 
 the architectural description of the churches of Haseley 
 and Rycotc, and their sepulchral records) of the few 
 memorials left of so many generations long ago called 
 aw’ay to their great account, cannot altogether be ^vith- 
 out profit. The slight sketch given below of the history 
 of the lords of the manors of Haseley and Rycote gives 
 us a partial insight into the busy occurrences of their 
 day ; their profitable and unprofitable works. They 
 
 ' The whole passage is as follows : — “ Sed non ob aliud vel mennorise 
 vel monumenta dicuntur ea quae insignita Hunt sepulcra mortuorum, nisi 
 quia eos qui viventium oculis subtracti sunt, ne oblivione etiam cordibus 
 subtrahantur, in memoriam revocant, et admonendo faciuut cogitari : nam 
 et memoriae nomen id apertissime ostendit, et monumentum eo quod mo- 
 neat mentem, id est, admoneat, nuncupatur. Propter quod et Graeci 
 pvTpitiov vocant, quod nos memoriam seu monumentum appellamus: 
 quoniam lingua eorum memoria ipsa qua meminimus pyiitiri dicitur.” — 
 S. Aug. de cura gerenda pro mortuis, rap. iv. 
 
APPENDIX C. 
 
 57 
 
 have all passed away, aud now is our day. We too of 
 the present generation, ere many years shall have 
 elapsed, shall be of “ those that are past and may 
 perchanee become a subject of enquiry to oiu* suc- 
 cessors, even as now we are anxious to collect all the 
 particulars of those oim predecessors, to whose piety 
 and munificence the churches of England, and the two 
 churches under consideration in particular, owed their 
 erection and decoration. INIay we, of the present day, 
 leave behind us a memorial, which may in truth be a 
 monument, such as udll carry out to the full the defini- 
 tion of St. Augustine above given, “ that men may sec 
 om* good works, and glorify our Father which is in 
 heaven.” 
 
 Mr. Delafield’s reflections on this subject may well 
 here be inserted, both in justice to the memory of the 
 historian of Haseley, and as instructive to ourselves. 
 Speaking of the illegibiUty of grave-stones after a few 
 years, he remarks, “ they are as perfectly unknown as 
 if they had never been : their names being as much 
 out of remembrance, as their bodies out of sight and 
 he then quotes, as expressive of his own thoughts, a 
 passage from Henry of Huntingdon, (ii. 320,) “Vide, 
 Lector, et perpende, quanta nomina quam cito ad 
 nihilum devenerint. Attende, quaeso, et stude, cum 
 nihil hie duret, ut adquiras tibi substantiam illam quae 
 non deficiet, nomen illud et honorem qui non per- 
 transibit, monumentum illud et claritatem quae nullis 
 saeculis veterascet. Hoc praemeebtari summae prudentiae 
 est, adquirere summae caUiditatis, adipisci summae feli- 
 citatis.” 
 
 Tbe following account of the “Lords of Haseley,” &c., 
 has been principally compiled from ~Mr. Delafield’s MS.; 
 corroborated, however, by reference to other sources. 
 It was found upon examination that his account was 
 
58 
 
 APPENDIX C. 
 
 almost entirely a translation from, or based upon, 
 Matthew Paris, Roger Hoveden, Speed, and other early 
 chroniclers. His statements may, therefore, be con- 
 sidered as theirs, and as resting on their authority. 
 Frequent reference to these annalists has home testi- 
 mony to the care and diligence of the writer of the 
 !MS. history of Haseley ; and a few passages from the 
 original sources have been added below, as well to 
 exhibit his accuracy, as to give the younger members 
 of the Society (for whom, it cannot he too often re- 
 peated, these “Remarks on Haseley Church” have been 
 put together) a specimen of the Latinity, and style of 
 our earliest English historians. 
 
 For the arms of the several families connected with 
 the parishes of Haseley and Rycote, aud those formerly 
 existing in the church, see p. 72. 
 
 LORDS OF THE MANOR OF HASELEV. 
 
 In Domes-day Book™, Milo Crispin was possessor of 
 Haseley: about 1105 he gave the manor of 
 Swinescomh, Oxon, and the tithes of his demesne 
 lands, mthin the honour of Wallingford, to the 
 abbey of Bee, in Normandy". (Kennett, P. 
 i. 95*) 
 
 The Bassets were the next lords of Haseley. 
 
 “ Domes-day Book. This general survey of all parts of Kngland, except 
 the three most northern counties, was commenced in the year 1082. King 
 Alfred had previously caused a register, called Dome-hoc, to be made, 
 when he divided England into counties, hundreds, and tithings ; which 
 being kept in the church at Winchester was called Codex ICinlonensit . — 
 (See Kennett’s “ Parochial Antiq.”) Hence some suppose the name to have 
 been derived from the Domus Dei where the register was preserved. 
 Others again have called it Dooms-day Book, " from its giving final judg- 
 ment in the tenure of estates, &c., from whence its Latin name Liber 
 Judicialis." 
 
 " Hence the payment to that abbey, as noticed p. Id. note. 
 
APPENDIX C. 
 
 59 
 
 Ralph Basset® was justiciary? to Henry I. (Sir Harris 
 Nicolas’s “ Synopsis of the Peerage.”) He was 
 buried at Abingdon. (See note o.) 
 
 Gilbert Basset, bis son, 12 Henry II., was enfeoffed 
 in seven knights’ fees in the honour of Walling- 
 ford, “ of which, as I think,” says Delafield, 
 “ Haseley was one.” This Gilbert Basset sided 
 with the Empress Maud against Stephen, being 
 feudatory tenant to Brian Fitz Comit, lord of 
 Wallingford, who inchned to the same cause. 
 
 Thomas Basset, his sou, was sheriff of Oxfordshii-e, 
 10 Henry II., a post of very great authority in 
 those days. In 21 Henry II. ‘•he was made one of 
 the king’s justices of his court of judicature, and 
 in 1179 he was appointed one of the itinerant 
 judges for Hampshire, AVilts, Oxfordshire, &c. &c. 
 He married Alice de Dunstamdlle. (See Harleian 
 MS. 245.) 
 
 Gilbert Basset, his son, succeeded in 1182. He 
 founded a monastery of black canons of the Au- 
 gustine order at Burcestre, (Bicester,) endowing 
 it with the churches of Burcestre, Ardington, 
 Compton Basset in AVilts, &c. &c. AATth his two 
 
 ° The Harleian MS. 245 gives a pedigree of the Basset family, and its 
 several branches of Welden, Drayton, dc Chedle, Hcdington, and Wicomb. 
 
 f The “ chief justicier” of England was next to the king in power and 
 authority, and in his absence governed the realm as viceroy. If the king 
 was not present in person, in curia regis, he was the chief judge both in 
 
 criminal and civil causes For an account of the principal officers of state 
 
 under the Norman and Plantagenetmonarchs, see Rapin’s “ History,” note 
 to p. 178, vol. i. sub an. 1079 : also Collier, “ Eccl. Hist,” vol. ii. p. 406- 
 “ Anno MCLXXVH Regis Henrici II. 22®, post natale festum Domini 
 in festo conversionis S. Pauli venit Dominus Rex pater usqu6 Notingam, 
 et ibi celebravit magnum concilium de statutis regni sui, et cotam Rege 
 filio suo, et coram .Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, Comitibus, et Baronibus regni 
 sui, communi omnium concilio divisit regnum suum in sex partes, per 
 quarnm singulas tres justitiarios itinerantes constituit.” — R. Hoveden. 
 
60 
 
 APPENDIX C, 
 
 brothers, Thomas and iUan, he sided with John; 
 but afterwards, in 1194, purchased King Richard’s 
 pardon for himself for eight pounds, and for his 
 brothers for fom* pounds each ! In 1200, Gilbert 
 Basset was sheriff of Oxon, and in tliis year also 
 (2 John) he attended that monarch into Nor- 
 mandy, and was also one of his train at the 
 famous intendew between John and William, 
 king of Scotland, at Lincoln. This Gilbert 
 Basset was also a benefactor to the Knights 
 Templars’’, by the gifts of divers lands and rents 
 at Charing to that fraternit}\ lie married Egilina 
 daughter of Reginald Courtenay, (Harleian MS. 
 245,) and died 1203, being succeeded by his 
 brother. 
 
 Thomas Basset. In 3 John he was constituted 
 governor of Oxford castle ; and by the king’s 
 writ, dated August 2, 1203, he succeeded to his* 
 brother’s lordship of Hedenden, (or Hedington,) 
 to be held at the service of one knight’s fee, and 
 twenty pounds yearly; “ and at the same time, 
 I presume,” says Delafield, ‘‘ he had possession 
 of the other lands held of the crown, and amongst 
 them of Haseley.” For six years successively, 
 from the 10th to the 16th of John, he was sheriff 
 of Oxon. In 1212 he “stood stiffly with John, 
 
 ' This Gilbert Basset, from his liberality to that order, may be supposed 
 to have been a Templar himself; if so, the figure under the tower of 
 Haseley church may possibly be his effigy. The arms, however, /ormer/y 
 apparent on the shield, hear a nearer resemblance to the Bigod coat than 
 to that of the Basset family. See List of Arms, Appendix, p. 87. The 
 earlier parts of the church were built about his time. 
 
 » The Harleian MS., 245, says of this Thomas Basset, “huic Rex 
 Johannes dedit Barnniam de Hedington : duxit Philippam filiam Willelmi 
 Baronis Vici Malbami.” See also Co»nrfen,“ Oxfordshire and Sir Harris 
 Nicolas, “ Syn. Peer.” 
 
APPENDIX C. 
 
 G1 
 
 wheu under the pope’s interdict, and would not 
 submit, as a great many of the barons did, to 
 that ecclesiastical tjTanny.” June 5, 1215, he 
 was one of those who appeared, on the part of 
 King John, at Runnymede. He died 1231, and 
 was succeeded by his youngest brother. 
 
 Alan Basset^ succeeded in 1231 and died in 1233. 
 At his death he left 200 marks (a great sum in 
 those days) to the University of Oxford for the 
 maintenance of two chaplains and scholars. 
 
 Gilbert Basset, his son, succeeded in 1233. His 
 estate was seized by Henry III. for encoirraging 
 disaffection against the throne. He w'as after- 
 wards reconciled to the king. He died out hunt- 
 ing in 1241“, and was succeeded by his next 
 brother, Fulco. 
 
 Fulco Basset, afterwards bishop of London*. He 
 was elected bishop against the wdU of the king, 
 (Henrj' III.,) and the opposition of the king de- 
 ferred his consecration for three years, till 1244. 
 In the year 1255, “ when Rustand, the pope’s 
 legate, held a convocation in London to impose 
 on the clergy an insupportable exaction by the 
 
 ‘ “ Huic [Alano Basset] dedit Henricus II. Baroniam de Wicomb .” — 
 (Harl. MS. 245.) And the same MS. has this statement, ” Ego Walterus 
 de DunstanvilU [see last page ; his mother was of that family] dedi Alano 
 Basset mauerium de Winterbome,” &c. See also Sir H. N., “ Syn. Peer.,” 
 vol. i. p. 45. 
 
 “ Matt. Paris, sub an. 1241. “ Eodem anno praedictus Gilbertus Basset 
 cum equo suo in quodam nemore cum venatum iret in Autumno, stipite 
 offendiculum faciente, corruit, et dissipatis ossibu's et nervis dissolutis, 
 protractis paucis diebus, animam exhalavit, hxreditate ad Fulconem 
 Basset, Decanum Eboracensem, fratrem dicti Gilbert! devoluta.” 
 
 * Matt. Paris, sub. an. 1241. “ Elegerunt canonic! Londinenses in 
 Episcopura et Pastorem animarum suarum magistrum Fulconem, Deca- 
 num Eboracensem, virum discretum et circumspectum, moribus compo- 
 situm, et genere prseclarum : contra taroen Regis voluntatem.” 
 
APPENDIX C. 
 
 G:;i 
 
 popc^s commandj this Fulco, bishop of Londou, 
 first of all the assembly openly opposed it, declar- 
 ing that he would sooner lose his head than 
 consent to have so great an injury and oppression 
 done to the Church.” And when the legate com- 
 plained to the king of the bishop’s opposition, the 
 king declared that neither the bishop nor any of 
 his family were ever fi-iends to the crown, and 
 threatened the resentment of the pope to the 
 bishop. “The latter is said,” says Delafield, “to 
 have returned answer to those that told him of 
 it, — ‘The king and pope, who are stronger than 
 I, may take from me my bishopric, which yet they 
 cannot do by right. They may take away my 
 mitre, but my helmet Avill be left^.’” 
 
 In 1257*, Richard, the king’s brother, going into 
 Germany on imatatiou to be elected King of the 
 Romans, left Fulco® Basset the chief overseer of all 
 
 '' Matt. P., sub an. 1255. “Ad quod Episcopus [Londinensis] — 
 ‘ auferant Episcopatum, quern tamen non possunt de jure auferre, Papa 
 et Rex, qui me fortiores sunt. ToWant Mitram, galea remanebit’” It 
 appears that at length the king’s eyes opened to tlie real character of the 
 popish pretensions, for the annalist proceeds, under the year 1245, “ Tunc 
 vero, licet sero, Dominus Rex Anglorum caepit detestari Romanae curiae 
 insatiabilem cupiditatem, et totius Regni, immo etiam et Ecclesiae per 
 earn factas injuriosas occupationes, illicitasque rapinas. Composita igitur 
 per Regni universitatem epistola, in qua extortiones Papales niinis execra- 
 biles, et exactiones multiformes Legatorum ejus, &c., contiuebantur: 
 cum qua viri nobiles ac discreti ad Concilium destinantur,’’ &c. The 
 present bishop of St Asaph, (Dr. Short,) in his History of the Church of 
 England, has remarked that the vices of the sovereigns of England were 
 the principal causes which led to the establishment of the papal influence 
 in this country. See also Weever, “ Fun. Mon.,’’ edit 1631, p. 363. 
 
 « See “ Guide to the Archit Antiq. near Oxford,’’ p. 212, for a sketch of 
 the means employed by the earl of Cornwall to secure so high an honour, 
 &c. And Collier’s “ Ecc. Hist,’’ vol. ii. p. 544. 
 
 » Some encaustic tiles still remain (1848) in Haseley church, display- 
 ing the spread eagle, the badge of the “ king of the Romans.” Bishop 
 
APPENDIX C. 
 
 63 
 
 his possessions in England. The bishop died of the 
 plague in 1258, and was buried in his own cathedi’al 
 of St. Paul, on the north side of the ehoir. 
 
 The last of the Basset family*', who was lord of 
 Haseley, was Philip, fourth son of the Alan Basset 
 above mentioned. In 28 Henry III. this “ Philip 
 Basset, with Roger Bigod, then marshal of England 
 and earl of Norfolk, John Fitz Geoffry, William de 
 Cantalupe, Ralph Fitz Nieolas, (unele to Ralph Pypard, 
 of the same family that aftenvards became possessed 
 of the lordship of Haseley,) and ^Master William Power- 
 ick, clerk, were appointed (Matthew Paris, 579) the 
 six commissioners to represent and declare to the 
 council of Lyons the insupportable burdens of the 
 kingdom of England, by reason of the pope's exac- 
 tions of tnbute, to which the whole nation never con- 
 sented.” 
 
 In 1258, he had summons to attend the king at 
 Chester against the Welch, and in 1259, upon the 
 death of his brother Fulco, the bishop of London, he 
 had liverj' of his mIioIc inheritance, and of Haseley 
 amongst the rest. In 1260 he was made governor of 
 Oxford castle, and in the next year he was created 
 justiciary of England against the wdll of the barons. 
 In 1264, after a fruitless treaty betw'een the barons 
 and the king, both parties prepared to decide their 
 disputes with the sw'ord. The siege of Northampton 
 ensued, at which Philip Basset attended the king. 
 
 Fulco Basset, when lord of Haseley, may possibly have ornamented his 
 church with them, in honour of his patron and friend. Sec “ Guide,” &c., 
 p. 237, and the representation of some encaustic tiles found atWoodperry, 
 p. 232. 
 
 The recessed tombs in the south aisle, which appear to be of the thir- 
 teenth century, may be the resting places of the Basset family, who flou- 
 rished during that period. 
 
6i 
 
 APPENDIX C. 
 
 This was followed by the battle of Lewes', (in Sussex,) 
 in which King Henrj’^ was made prisoner, and sent 
 to Dover castle. In 1270, King Henry styles him, 
 “ amicus noster specialis.” 
 
 Phihp Basset man’ied thrice j his third wdfe was Ela, 
 daughter of AA'illiam Longespee, (son of King Henr}" II. 
 by Rosamund Clifford,) who became earl of Salisbury, 
 by his mai’riage uith Ela the heiress of the eaiddom, 
 and which lady afterwards founded the abbey, and even- 
 tually became abbess of Lacock, in 1240**. The third 
 daughter of the countess of Salisburj', of the same 
 name with her mother, married first Thomas de New- 
 burgh^, earl of Warwick ; and secondly, after his death 
 in 1242, the above Philip Basset. Leland speaks of 
 the great wealth of the countess of Warwick, and the 
 “ Hist, of Lacock Abbey’' states that “ she was returned 
 in 1285, as holding the manor of Hoke Norton, in 
 Oxfordshire, in capite by the sergeantry of carving 
 before our lord the king on Christmas-day, when she 
 had for her fee the king’s knife with which she cut. 
 She lived duiiug her widowhood at Headington near 
 Oxford h” She died about 1300*, and ''was buried 
 
 ' A curious specimen of ancient satire is afforded by the antique ballad 
 of “ Richard of Almaigne," written soon after the battle of Lewes. See 
 Percy’s “Reliques of Ancient Poetry,” vol. ii. p. 1. edit 1844. 
 
 See Bowles’s” Lacock Abbey,” pp. 39, 149 ; Leland’s “ Collectanea,” 
 vol. i. part 2; “Memoir of Dorchester Church,” p. Ill; and Percy’s 
 “Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,” vol. i. pp. xxxv., Ixxx. (edit. 
 1844) for a sketch of the early adventures of tlie countess of Salisbury. 
 
 • SeeHarleian MS. 245, which, however, speaks of the Lady Ela as the 
 “relictaTh. Bellocap: [Beauchamp] co. Warwick.” Bowles’s “History 
 of Lacock Abbey” agrees with the Delafield MS. in the name Newburgh. 
 
 ' For her arms, see List of Arms, Basset family. Engravings are given 
 in the “ Hist of Lacock Abbey ” of her two seals, one for each of her 
 widowhoods. 
 
 * Leland, “ Collect” sub. an. 1300. “ £/a Comitissa de Warwike obiit, 
 et Osneiae sepelitur.” The “ Hist of Lacock Abbey,” however, gives the 
 year 1297 as that of her death. 
 
APPENDIX C. 
 
 G5 
 
 at the head of the tomb of Henry Oilly, in Oseucy 
 chimch. She was a great benefactress to !Merton 
 college, Oxford, also to the monks of Reading, to the 
 canons of Oseney, and to the nuns of Godstow,” &c. : 
 she was also an especial friend to the University of 
 Oxford, to which, in 1293**, she gave a common chest, 
 and put therein 120 marks, out of which such as were 
 poor scholars might, upon security, at any time, borrow 
 something gratis for the supply of their w ants. “ The 
 money being received by the chancellor and proctors, 
 by a public decree, amongst other orders, it was com- 
 manded that when the mass priest and public seiwant 
 of the University should circuit the schools everj'^ year 
 according to the manner, and in their circuiting recite 
 the names of the benefactors thereunto, should in the 
 same recitation nominate Ela, countess of Wanvick, 
 next to the name of King Ilenrv III., being his kins- 
 woman ; that also two masters should be yearly chosen 
 for the custody of it, to keep accounts and take secu- 
 rity ; wliich masters being chosen in the beginning of 
 summer, the chest Avas numbered among the summer 
 chests. The benefactress had a mass yearly celebrated 
 for her on St. Clement’s day with a deacon and sub- 
 deacon, and so it continued, although her benefaction 
 is lost, to the Reformation**.” This che.st was still in 
 being in Edward IV.’s time, and w'as called by the 
 name of the Warwick chest. 
 
 Philip Basset died 1271^; his sole daughter and 
 
 ^ See Wood’s “ Oxford,” by Gulch, vol. i. p. 344. 
 
 Kennett, “ Tax, Ant.,” sub. an. 1271. “ The said PAi/ip Bassel v/as 
 possessed of the manors of Kertlington, Chefield, and Hunington, which 
 with tlie manors of Haselee, Ascote, and Peryton, passed to Roger le Bigod, 
 earl of Norfolk, and Mareschall of England, who had married AUva, the 
 sole daughter and heir of the said Philip Basset.” (Dodsworth MSS., vol. 
 Ixxxii. f. 10, b.) 
 
 K 
 
Al’PKNDIX C. 
 
 lieiress, “ Alicia sen Anna,” (Ilarleiau !MS. 245,) or 
 “ Aliva,” (Sir H. Nicolas, “ Syn. Peer.,”) married, 
 first, Hugo Le Despcncer, justiciary of England, and 
 secondly, Roger le Rigod, earl of Norfolk, and earl 
 marshal of England ; to the latter the lordship of 
 Haseley passed*. 
 
 1305. After Roger Bigod’s death, all his lands 
 passed to Edward 1.® by his will, who granted the 
 lordship of Haseley to his son (by Margaret of France) 
 Thomas de Broth erton, (so called from the place of 
 his birth in Yorkshire.) Haseley remained in his pos- 
 session for twenty years. Thomas de Brotherton was 
 created earl of Norfolk by his half brother, Edward 
 TI., and he obtained all the Bigod lands. 
 
 1332. Thomas de Brotherton suirendcred all his 
 lands, and amongst them Haseley, to the king, Edward 
 III.", who bestowed them the same year upon William 
 DE Boh UN, earl of Hereford and Northampton, M ho had 
 frequently fought Avith him, and Avho, afteniards in 
 1346, ■with Richard Fitz-Alan, earl of Arundel, com- 
 manded one of the three dirtsioiis of the Enghsh army 
 on the field of Cressy, the king and the Black Prince 
 commanding the other two". 
 
 * It was about this time, the close of the thirteenth century, that the 
 present chancel of Haseley church was built. (See p. 15.) The bearing 
 once visible on the shield of the effigy of the Knight Templar (see p. 1 12) 
 being so nearly the same with that of the liigod family, seems to point to 
 the above Roger le Bigod. who became lord of Haseley in right of his 
 wife, as probably the person commemorated hy the sepulchral figure; but 
 we learn from Weever (“ Fun. Mon.,” edit. 1C31, p. 830) of this Roger le 
 Bigod, that “ he was the last of his family, and together with his first wife 
 Alina, Alyva, or Adeliza, daughter of Philip (Lord) Basset, was buried in 
 Thet/ord church, Norfolk.” 
 
 "> Hence the royal arms occur frequently amongst the many that 
 formerly decorated the windows of Haseley church. 
 
 “ Kennett, “ Par. Ant.,” sub. an. 1332. — Dodsworlh MSS. 84. folio 25. 
 
 “ See Uapin’s “ Hist.,” sub. an. 1346. 
 
APPENDIX C. 
 
 t>7 
 
 Humphrey de Bouun, son of the above, succeeded 
 him in his lands, (and in the lordship of Haseley 
 amongst them.) He died withoiit male issue in 1372 P. 
 Haseley then passed as dowy to his wife Joan; she 
 held it till her death in 1420i, when the estates were 
 di^-ided between his two daughters, Eleanor and IMar}', 
 coheiresses'. Eleanor, the eldest, (uho is buried in 
 "Westminster abbey,) married Thomas Plantagenet de 
 Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, son of King Edu ard III. 
 Their daughter Anne married Edmund earl of Stafford. 
 Mary, the youngest daughter of Humplirey de Bohun, 
 having married Henry Plantagenet, afterwards Henry 
 IV. P, became the mother of King Henry V., to whom, 
 on her death, the manor of Haseley, with others, de- 
 scended*. The above-mentioned Thomas de Woodstock, 
 duke of Gloucester, afterwards succeeded as lord of 
 Haseley, and his daughter Anne, countess of Stafford, 
 presented to the linng in 1412. 
 
 About 1440, the Pipard or Pypard family became 
 possessed of the lordship of Haseley*. The male line 
 of this family became extinct in 1482, 22 Edward IV. 
 Haseley, and the patronage of the rectory, was then 
 given to the college of Windsor. 
 
 p See Sir Harris Nicolas’s “ Synopsis of the Peerage” — “ Earls of Here- 
 ford,” &c. 
 
 s Kennett, however, (“Par. Ant.,” vol. ii. p. 181. sub. an. 1397,) says, 
 ” Humphry, the good duke of Gloucester, basely murdered at Calais on 
 Saturday after the feast of St Bartholomew, was possessed of the manors, 
 Kirtlington, Great Haseley," &c. &c. 
 
 t Kennett, “ Par. Ant,” sub. an. 1420 — “ by which division there fell to 
 the king's share in Oxfordshire, the manor of Great Haselee, valued at x’; 
 Kirtlington valued at xiii* vi" viii«t, viiboves,” &c. &c. — (Dodsworth MS. 
 vol. Ixiii. f. 148.) 
 
 • See note m, p. 66. 
 
 • The Pypards appear to have been connected with Haseley long before 
 1440. The earliest presentation to the living, (A.D. 1223,) which is on 
 record, was by one of that family. (See List of Rectors, p. 44.) 
 
 p 2 
 
G8 
 
 AVPK\I)IX C. 
 
 The daughter and sole heiress of the Pypards married 
 William Lenlhall, or Leynthall, of a good family in 
 Herefordshire. “Though it hath been said (remarks 
 Delafield) by one of the heralds that this William 
 Lenthall married Katharine daughter of John Badby 
 by Jane his wife, daughter and heiress of Richard 
 Pypard.” This William Lenthall was the founder of 
 the Oxfordshire Lenthalls ; he died in 1497, and is 
 buried in their chapel (south aisle", see the inscription, 
 p. 84) in Haseley church, under a flat grave-stone. 
 Lachford manor (in Haseley parish) belonged for more 
 than 200 years to the family of Lenthall, and was the 
 usual place of residence of the father of the famous 
 William Lenthall'', Speaker of the House of Conunons 
 in Charles I. ’s time. 
 
 The next family in possession of the lordship of 
 Haseley is that of Cutler, (see List of Arms, p. 89.) 
 Delafield speaks of a Sir John Cutler. The next in suc- 
 cession were the famibes of Roberts (earl of Radnor, 
 see List of Arms, p. 89,) and Blackall, (List of Arms, 
 p.89.) 
 
 The present possessor of the lordship of Haseley is 
 Walter Long, Esq., of Haseley Court, (see List of Arms, 
 p. 89.) 
 
 ° “ The south aisle of Haseley church is called the Leynthall aisle, from 
 the family, as is the north aisle after the Rycole lordship, which belonged 
 to the Pypard family.” — Delafield. 
 
 * Haseley parish register begins A.D. 1538, from which date to 1587 
 the baptisms have this heading, ” Infantium nomina ex aqua et Spiritu 
 Sancto renatorum.” The following is the entry of Speaker Lenthall’s 
 baptism, “ W™. Lentall son of John Lentall Esq. was baptized y* 4 of 
 July in y^ year 1591. — paid 1 shilling.” He died Sept. 3, 1662, and was 
 buried at Burford Priory, in Oxfordshire. 
 
APPENDIX D. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM LELAND’S ITINERARY, vol. ii. folio 7, 8«. 
 
 “Haseley is thus divided into Grete-Haseley, Litle 
 Haseley, Lacheford and Ricote. 
 
 “ Great Ilaseley was of auncient tyme a lordship 
 longging by many descentes to the Pyperues, whose 
 maner place was there wher now is the ferme place by 
 the chirch longging to AVindesor college. 
 
 “These Piperdes were men of fair possessions, and 
 the name of them as in the principal maner florish’d 
 onto Edward the Thirde dayes, about the which tjune 
 Piperdes maner place and the patronage of the benefice 
 of Haseley was gyven to the college of Windesore. 
 
 “The armes of Piperd apere yn the est window of 
 the fair chauncelle of Haseley chirch. 
 
 “ Litle Haseley, wher Master Baretine^ hath a right 
 fair mansion place, and marvelus fair walkes topiarii 
 operis, and orchardes, and poolcs, holdith, as I lernid, 
 of the maner of Piperdes by knight service. 
 
 “ Lacheforde about the beginning of Ed^vard the 
 Thirdes tyme was parte of the Piperdes Landes. Then 
 it chauncid for a younger sun of Piperdes of Haseley 
 to do so valiauntly in hatelle agajui the Scottes that he 
 was made knight : and haA-ing no lande, bycause that 
 his elder brother w as heire, dcsirid to have sum smaul 
 portion of land ; wherapon his father gave hym Lache- 
 
 * Edit. Oxford, ITW. Leland was rector of Haseley: he was pre- 
 sented to it by Henry VIII. April 3, 1542. See List of Rectors. 
 
 y “Sir William Barantyne,” correction by the famous antiquary, 
 Francis Thynne. 
 
70 
 
 APPENDIX U. 
 
 ford to hold by knight service of the mauer of Piperdes 
 in Great Haseley. 
 
 “ The stook of this yong Piperd knight remaynid in 
 Lacheford onto 8o. yeres ago : when the last of these 
 Piperdes lefte a doughter and heire, that was maried to 
 one Lenthaul, a gentilman of Ilerefordshir, whose 
 sunne now dwellith in Lacheforde. 
 
 “ Ricote longid to one Fulco de Ricote. 
 
 “After it cam to one Quatermains. 
 
 “Tlie house of the Quatermains in Oxfordshir hath 
 beene famose and of right fair possessions. Their chief 
 house was at "Weston by Ricote, wher Mr. Clerk now 
 dwellith. 
 
 “ And Shirburne withjm a mile of Wathehngton 
 chirch, wher is a strong pile or castelet, longid to Qua- 
 tremains : sins Fowler : and by exchaunge now to 
 Chaumbrelein of Oxfordshir. 
 
 “ About King H enry the vj . dayes dy vers brethren 
 dyed of the Quatremaius one after another, and by a 
 great onlykelihod al the landes desccndid to one 
 Richard, the yonggest of the brethren, that was a 
 marchant of London, and after customer there. 
 
 “This Richard* had a servaunt cauUid Thomas 
 Fowler* his clerk, a towai’d felaw that after Mas 
 Chauncelar of the Duchy of Lancastre. 
 
 * This Thomas Fowler may have been connected by marriage with 
 Richard Quatermain, for Glover (Ilarleian MSS. 245) states that the two 
 daughters and heiresses of Sir John Englefield, (lord of Ricot,) Sibell 
 and Cicely, married respectively, the first Richard Quatermains, Esq., 
 the second William Fowler, Esq. Leland (vol. viii. folio 50, a) has 
 another reference to these two families. “ Qiiatermayne founded an 
 bospitall at Tame in Oxfordshire. One of the Quatermaynes is buried 
 in Tame churche. The Quatermaynes were men of faire lands in the 
 quarters of Oxford, Buckinghame, and Barkshire The last of the 
 Quatermains left most of his lands to one Fowlar, whose sune was after 
 Chauncelar of the Duchye of Lancaster, and the Chauncellar's sonne sold 
 away all. Ricote was one of Quatermain's manor places." 
 
API'KNUIX I). 
 
 71 
 
 " Richard Quatennains bare great favor to this 
 Tliomas. 
 
 “ Richard was god-father to Thomas sunne, and 
 namid Inmi Richard Quatermains Fowler. 
 
 ” Richard Quatermains lay at Ricote : and caussid 
 Thomas Fowler to lay at Westun. 
 
 “ Richard Quatermains made Richard Thomas 
 Fowler sunne heii’ of most pai't of his landes, by- 
 cause he had no children. 
 
 “ Richard Quatermains godfather to Richard Fowler 
 made a right goodly large chapelle ^ of ease hard without 
 the manor place of Ricote, and foundid ther 2. chauntre 
 prestes to sing perpetually for his soule, enduing the 
 cantuaries with good landes : and made a fair house 
 for tlie prestes therhy®. 
 
 “ This fundation was begon in Henrx' the 6. dayes : 
 and endid yn Edward the 4. tyme. 
 
 “This Richard founded also a cantuarie in Tame 
 paroche chirche a 2. miles from Ricote, wher he in a 
 chapelle is buried unch’e a marble stone. 
 
 “This Richard foundid ther also an hospitale by 
 Tame chirche endowing it Iw landes. 
 
 “ Richard Fowler, heir to Quatremains was a very 
 onthrift, and sold al his landes leving his childern ful 
 smaul lyringes. 
 
 “Syr John Heron, treasorer of the chaumbre to 
 Henry the rij. and the riij. boute the reversion of the 
 lordship of Ricote, and Giles his sunne possessid it 
 a while. 
 
 “Giles Heron wise in wordcs but folisch }'u deades, 
 as Syr Richard Fowler was, sold Ricote to John Wil- 
 LVAMS, now knighte, (in 1542.) 
 
 • Confirmed by Glover. See Harleian MSS. 2i5. folio 30, and List 
 of the Lords of the Manor of Ryeotc, p. 142. 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 LIST OF MONUMENTS, BRASSES, ARMS, &c. 
 
 AT PRESENT OR FORMERLY IN THE CHURCH; TOGETHER WITH THOSE OF 
 THE SUCCESSIVE 
 
 LORDS OF THE MANOR, &c. 
 
 Heraldry has been called a “ silly science.” If the 
 remark be tme, the same may surely be said of numis- 
 matics, apart from the consideration of the coins as 
 works of art. And yet it is allowed on all hands that 
 history derives no little illustration from the contem- 
 porary records of families, individuals, and events, 
 which coins afford. By a successive scries of coins of 
 any nation, a constant register, as it were, is exhibited, 
 not only of the rise and progress of that particular 
 branch of art amongst them, an object in itself very 
 interesting, but also of the various political changes, 
 manners, customs, costume, and religious observances, 
 prevailing at each particular period of thcii' historj'*’. 
 
 Witness the many works in every age on coins, both national and 
 family. By the discovery of a very large number of coins, found within 
 these last fifteen years in various parts of Affghanistan, but particularly 
 at Begraum, near Cabul, (supposed to be the site of Alexandria ad Cau- 
 casum,) an outline of the history of the Graeco- Bactrian kingdom, founded 
 by Alexander, and of its subordinate kingdom established south of the 
 Indian Caucasus, (now the Hindu Kosh range,) has been brought down 
 from B.C. 120 (from which time the learned author of the “ Fasti Helle- 
 nici” could previously find no evidence of its continuance) to so late a 
 date as A.D. 200. See Professor H. H. Wilson's work on the above 
 coins, and Clinton's “ Fasti Hellenici," vol. iii. p. 315, notes. 
 
PLATE 14. 
 
 qftmbeoDai^eioT^fliaseahe tpn ofnrt^® 
 bm eg* gggqlymttq‘cm^eoye jgnaet" tE? 
 
 BRASS IN CHANCCt * 
 
 • See the engraving of the incited slab to Sir “John le Botiler,” in St. Bride's CJiurch, Glamorgan- 
 shire : Boutell’s Mon. Brasses, &c., p. 159. This slab, which is apparently of the end of the thirteenth 
 century, exhibits the same coat of arms with the above brass. 
 
AIM’KNDIX E. 
 
 ^ <1 
 / O 
 
 Now all the above several points of interest derive 
 their illustration merely from the design and eompo- 
 sition of the device exhibited on the coins; combined 
 with the more precise application of the images pre- 
 sented there, which the legend &c. may afford. 
 
 Ilcraldiy may therefore assvu’edly be said to illustrate 
 genealogical and even national history, (for the latter 
 is always verj' closely connected with the former,) in 
 its degree no less effectually than numismatics. By 
 the precision of its rules, its laws of an’angement, its 
 various means of expressing clearly, and visibly as it 
 were, the most complicated combinations of family 
 connection, it affords no slight aid to the historical 
 student in traversing the mazes of the early records 
 of our countin', and in unravelling the successive 
 changes whether of dynasty, of families, of property, 
 or local history. At any rate antiquity may be pleaded 
 in its favour. It will be sufficient merely to allude to 
 the “ standards" by which the tribes of Israel, and 
 even their several families, were distinguished*^ : to the 
 de\"ices on the shields of the “ seven chiefs against 
 Thebes** and to the statement of Herodotus®, who 
 says that the Greeks received the custom of distinguish- 
 ing the shield from the Carians, one of the oldest of 
 the semi-Greek nations of Asia Minor, who invented 
 the custom, (for such is the expression,) or were the 
 
 ' Numb. i. 52, “ And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, 
 every man hy his own camp, and every man by his own standard through- 
 out their hosts.” And chap. ii. 2, “ Every man of the children of Israel 
 shall pitch by his ow'ii standard, with the ensign of their father’s house.” 
 
 ■* iEsch. S. c. Th. 419, and Eurip. Plioenissae, 1107 — 
 
 txw*' oi’k«7ov fv fiecai (roKei, (Parthenopaeus,) &c. 
 
 Even mottoes on the shield are as old as this memorable siege — e. g. 
 ”irpi 7 <r<tf ir6\tv,’’ on that of Capanens, in allusion to the device thereon, a 
 torch with flames. See Boswell's “Life of Johnson,” sub. an. 1772. 
 
 ' Herodotus, vol. i. p. 171. 
 
74 
 
 APPENIIIX E. 
 
 first (i. e. the first known to him) who introduced 
 
 (TTjfi^ia £7rl rd? da-TriSaf. 
 
 So much then with regard to heraldry in general. 
 With respect to its connection with the subject of the 
 present “ Remarks on the Church of Great Haseley/’ 
 and its architectural features, it will at once be seen 
 that no notice of a church can be considered in any 
 degree complete, which does not embrace some record 
 of its sepulchral memorials, and thus at once lead to 
 heraldry, as one of the languages by which such me- 
 morials hand on to posterity the particular history of 
 the deceased commemorated. 
 
 But in as much as heraldic memorials equally with 
 the other portions of the sacred edifice, of which they 
 thus form a subordinate part, are liable to decay or 
 obliteration, it may possibly be of some use to transfer 
 to paper what accounts still remain to us of such 
 memorials, when they are no longer in existence, or 
 w'hen tending towards decay; whilst their being de- 
 tached from the more immediate subject of considera- 
 tion, will •withdi’aw them from a too prominent posi- 
 tion, and prevent undue interference with the main 
 object of the Oxford Society for Promoting the Study 
 of Gothic Architecture. 
 
 Delafield, speaking of Wood’s MSS., and the same 
 custom just alluded to of committing heraldic and other 
 memorials to writing, says, “ This may be one and no 
 contemptible argument in favour of such kind of ac- 
 counts, that when monuments themselves decay, in- 
 scriptions wear out or are defaced, marble broken, brass 
 plates unfixed or thrown aside out of sight, or perhaps 
 returned to the founder, or sold to a tinker; when 
 effigies, arms, and inscriptions in glass, &c. are broken, 
 mangled, and disappear, the contents of them may be 
 preserved in a sheet of paper monumentum cere peren- 
 
APriiMMX K. 
 
 / .) 
 
 nius” The above reasons, therefore, it is hoped will 
 be a sufficient apology for the insertion of the following 
 lists of arms, &c. and brasses, some of them at present, 
 and others formerly, existing in the church of Haseley, 
 which appears to have singularly abounded in heraldic 
 remains, in times past, the result of its long connection 
 with so many great families into whose hands_the lord- 
 ship successively passed. No less than 180 different 
 coats of arms (many of them repeated two or three 
 times) must have at one time filled the windows of 
 Haseley church, and at least ninety those of its daugh- 
 ter chapel of Rycote. Of these perhaps one fourth 
 remained until the middle of the last century, when 
 Mr. Delafield drew up an account of them ; at present 
 not one single coat remains in the ivindows of either 
 church. 
 
 Several difterent authorities have been referred to, 
 from whose notices the following list has been' com- 
 piled. 
 
 The earliest of these is a !MS. by Richard Lee^, who 
 visited Haseley and Rycote in his heraldic capacity in 
 the year 1574, and whose notes of arms, then in the 
 church, are still presen ed. 
 
 The celebrated antiquary Francis Thynne also Ausited 
 the same churches in 1582, and his notes, dated Sept. 
 25 in that year, still exists. They are less copious than 
 those of Lee. 
 
 f Lee’s MS. is preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, (Wood’s MSS. 
 D- IL) See note a at p. 105 of the “Memoir of Dorchester Abbey 
 Church,” where it is stated on the authority of the present Rouge Dragon, 
 (T. W. King, Esq., F.S.A.,) that “ the county of Oxford was visited in 
 1574 by Ricliard Lee, who was Portcullis Pursuivant, and marshal and 
 deputy to Robert Cooke, then Clarenceux King at Arms. Lee became 
 Richmond Herald in 1585, and Clarenceux in 1594, in which office he 
 died in 1597, when he was succeeded by the famous Camden.’’ 
 
 » Cotton MSS. Cleopatra, c. iii. in the British Museum. 
 
76 
 
 .\P1’EM)1X E. 
 
 Wood'' again has a list of arms in both these churches, 
 perhaps copied from Lee’s account, for they appear very 
 nearly to agree. 
 
 A MS.‘ of an unknown author and date, in the 
 British Museum, gives a long list of the arms, and 
 their position in both churches. 
 
 Glover'^, Somerset Herald about 1585, has again sup- 
 plied some coats, whilst Mr. Delafield in his MS. history 
 of the parish gives us a list of those remaining in his 
 time, 1740. 
 
 Very great assistance in assigning family names to 
 the several coats of arms has been derived from the 
 valuable publications of Sir Harris Nicolas, and from 
 other sources, amongst which the obligations of the 
 writer of the present account must be particularly ex- 
 pressed to the author of the verj’^ interesting Me- 
 moir of Dorchester Abbey Church, from the appendix 
 of which the greatest assistance has been derived in 
 identif}nng several bearings, &c. 
 
 The several aiithorities have been appended to each 
 coat, under the abbreviations of L. for Lee, T. for 
 Thynne, AV. for Wood, H. for the Harleian MS., G. 
 for Glover, and lastly I), for Delafield. 
 
 MON'VMENTS, TOMBS, &C. IV THE CHANCEL OF 
 HASELEY CHURCH. 
 
 No. 1. — The Barrendyne altar-tomb, on the north 
 side of the communion table; (noticed by L. T. H. W. 
 
 *■ AVood’s MS. E. i. Ashmolean Museum. 
 
 ‘ Harleian MSS. No. 636d. 
 
 >■ “ Glover, Somerset Herald, was so eminent a master of liis profession, 
 that, in Sir William Dugdale’s opinion, Mr. Camden and he were the 
 two greatest men that had ever been of the College” (of Heralds). See 
 “ Life of Camden,” prefixed to Gibson’s edition of the “ Britannia,” edit. 
 1695. 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 77 
 
 and D. — H. remarks "no inscription”) The arras on 
 the tomb are, 
 
 I, Barrendyne — Sable, three spread eagles argent. 
 
 II. Quarterly, Barrendyne. — ii. Drayton, Azure, a 
 bend between six cross crosslets fitchee or. — iii. 
 Popham, Argent, on a chief gules two stags’ 
 heads cabossed or. — and iv. Maylyngs, or Mo- 
 lyns, Ermine, on a fesse gules three stags’ heads 
 cabossed or. {Thynne says '‘three billets.”) 
 
 III. per pale, I. Quarterly, Barrendyne, Drayton, 
 Popham, Maylyngs. 
 
 'II ? on a chevron . . . . ? 
 
 3 leopards’ heads, in canton a cross 
 botonnee. 
 
 IV. No. I. repeated. 
 
 V. No. II. repeated. 
 
 VI. No. II. impaling. Quarterly, lieade, Gules, on 
 a bend wavy argent three coots sable; and 
 Alphen, Argent, a fesse between three boars’ 
 faces couped sable. 
 
 “ Over all a helmet with banners worne out,” (remarks 
 //.) — The helmet still remains, (1848.) The banners 
 no longer exist. Of this tomb Delafield remarks ; 
 “ This was doubtless for a Barrendyne and a knight ; 
 and therefore perhaps for Sir William Barrendyne, the 
 last of that name here, and who had been high sheriff 
 of the counties of Oxford and Berks three times in the 
 
 ' Much trouble has been taken to obtain a proper blazon of the several 
 coats, by collating the separate authorities ; but not always with the success 
 desired. Neither Lee nor Thynne give the third coat on the Barrendyne 
 tomb as fully as might have been expected. Thynne gives for the dexter 
 half of the shield a blank ; whilst Lee omits the field of the sinister half, 
 and speaks merely of a cross in the canton ; the peculiar kind of cross, 
 the Harleian MS. 6365 supplies, but no name is given. Lee’s MS. does 
 not generally give the locality of the several coats he records, an omission 
 which H. supplies. 
 
78 
 
 APPKXUIX E. 
 
 reign of Henry VIII. Of the name, the arms still 
 appeai-ing at the end of the tomb are a proof, being — 
 Sable, three spread eagles or: (argent, Thynne :) and 
 his degree may be gathered from his helmet yet hang- 
 ing high over on the wall, as his cross-belt, a spur, a 
 gauntlet, and a pennon sometime did; but for want 
 of proper inspection they are since lost. This custom 
 of hanging up armour in churches is said to have come 
 from King Canute offering his crown, and setting it on 
 the head of a crucifix. And as knights anciently re- 
 ceived their swords from the altar, it might probably 
 be the usage at death to bequeath them thither again : 
 from whence the custom inight arise of hanging up 
 their military habiliments in consecrated places. V'e 
 know it was an ancient practice, when persons laid 
 down any employment, to dedicate the proper instru- 
 ments of their profession to the deity that was the 
 patron thereof : — ‘ hie victor ccestus arteinque reponoJ 
 Virg. .dEn. v. 484 . — ‘ armis Herculis ad postern Jixis* 
 Hor. Epist. I. i. 5.” 
 
 To these we may add — ‘ militavi non sine gloria : 
 Nunc arma, defunctumque hello Barbiton hie paries ha~ 
 bebit, Lrevum marina qui Veneris latus Custodit.’ — Hor. 
 Od. III. 2G. 
 
 Of the Barrendyne, [or Barentine,] family, Leland, 
 vol. viii. fob 114, has the following notice : — “ One Baren- 
 tyne, a yongar brother of the chefe house of the Baren- 
 tines, was a goldsmythe of London, and becam wonder- 
 full riche, and purchasid fayre lands, and dyeuge, as it 
 is sayde, without heires, gave parte of his lands to a 
 yongar brother of the Bareutyns called Drew, [see be- 
 low,] and he had many children, but in continuance 
 they dyed, and it cam then to the chefe house of the 
 Barentynes. The parsed of lands that Drew left to 
 his name was Little Haseley in Oxfordshire, wher Sir 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 79 
 
 lyUliam Barentyne now dwellethe.” Leland was pre- 
 sented to the rectory of Haseley by King Henry VIII. 
 in 1542. This Sir AV. Barentyne is no doubt the knight 
 spoken of above by Delafield, and whose tomb is under 
 consideration. * * * * '‘The cliefe howse of the 
 
 Barcntynes florished in Henry I., in Henry III., and 
 Kynge Edward the III. dayes. The heyres of the 
 Barentynes from Edward III. tyme tyll nowe were 
 nepotes” 
 
 The Roll of Arms of Henry III.'s time records that 
 Dru de Barantine bore Sable, 3 eagles, “ de or ” — 
 agreeing with Delafield, and not with Lee and Thynne. 
 That of Edward II., however, states, under the head of 
 “ Bokinghamshire,” that “ Sire Dru de Barentin” bore 
 for his arms “de Sable, a vj egles de argent.” (See 
 Sir Harris Nicolas's editions of both rolls, published 
 in 1828 and 1829.) 
 
 No. 2. — A brass still existing, (1848,) of which the 
 following is the inscription : — 
 
 littf) n' botiij of J^ttnric 15utJBlcston Dnugbttr of 
 5ic (ffitilliam 13arrtntimc linfgbt antt toief to ^nt^ont? 
 lautttiltston lEsquttr a gcntlcisoman of socl)c bertue 
 toiscliomc anti goDUncs as tocc ijabc gnat cause to tfianb 
 Cioti for i)ci anti to babe suer fjopc p* sf)cc is cialtcti to a 
 Crobon of glottc. Slje bieD p* 15"> tiaic of itfaic. 1581 . 
 
 Thynne gives, as existing in his time, her paternal 
 coat of 4 quarterings, viz. Barrentyne, Drayton, Pop- 
 ham, and Maylyngs : but omits her husband’s coat, 
 viz. Gules, a frette argent : Huddleston. In the roll of 
 Edward II. p. 6, “ Sire Johan de Hodelestone” has 
 the bearing, gules, fretty argent ; and at p. 60, Sir 
 Adam, Sir Richard, and Sir Richard “le neveu,” of 
 the same name, have the same arms with certain differ- 
 ences. At the siege of the castle of Carlaverock, A.D. 
 1300, one of the same family was amongst the com- 
 batants, and bore the same arms, (see Sir H. N.’s 
 
80 
 
 APPENDIX E. 
 
 translation of the contemporary poem, p. 11,) whilst, 
 a century later, the “ Roll of men at arms in the English 
 army, at the battle of Azincourt” (A.D. 1415) mentions 
 no less than four of the name as sharing in the glories 
 of that battle-field. (See Sir H. N.’s edition of the 
 above “ Roll,” &c.) On that occasion. Sir IVm. Hodel- 
 ston, who had previously been one of King Henry’s 
 retinue on his “ first voyage” in the third year of his 
 reign, was one of those who were “ made knights at the 
 battle of Azincourt,” whilst “ ^lonsieur IVm. Hudelston, 
 chevalier,” is mentioned as hanng been in the retinue 
 of “ Sir Raulfe Shyrley ;” Richard Hudleston in that of 
 the “ Sire de Harington,” and lastly another fVm. Hudel- 
 ston in that of Nicholas Merby. 
 
 No. 3. — A brass, which still remains, to Thos. Butler, 
 rector; (see engraving at p. 72.) His arms, accord- 
 ing to Delafield, were Gules, 3 covered cups or. But 
 neither Lee nor Wood give this bearing, whilst both 
 record a coat very similar as being in the windows of 
 the aisles, though they give no name, viz.. Gules, cru- 
 silly and 3 cups covered or. The H. MS., Wood and 
 Delafield, mention the arms of Quateitnain as occurring 
 in the windows of the south aisle, and underneath the 
 following inscription — “Orate pro alabus Bawdewini 
 Boteler et Mabell ux. ejus, et pro bono statu Dili Thoe 
 Boteler . . . rector . . .” The Butlers were connected 
 with the Quatermain family, he thinks. 
 
 No. 4. — “ On a stone on the ground this engraven” 
 [H.] \nz. “Carolus Sunnibank, S.T.D., hujus ecclesiae 
 rector, Windsoriensis Canonicus, quod mortale habuit 
 hie deposuit, 14° Oct. 1638. ‘ Veni cito Domiue Jesu.’” 
 [See List of Rectors, p. 50.] 
 
 No. 5. — “ On another like the former this engraven” 
 [i/.] \dz. “Here lyeth the body of William Welles, [or 
 Wellin,] gentleman, blaster of Arts, who dyed the 27“* 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 81 
 
 day of September, 1G26. ‘ Resurgam.’ ” (See List of 
 
 Anns, p. 90.) 
 
 Ko, G. — The H. MS. mentions another stone with 
 inscription, — “ Hie Edvardus Corbett * * ♦ ♦ the 
 remainder not finished;” and on another, — “ Ilic INIar- 
 garetta Corbett dormit, MDCLVI and on the same 
 stone at the bottom , — “ Ilic Robertus Corbett dormit, 
 !MDCLY.” Upon these Wood remarks (Wood’s ]\ISS. 
 E. 1.), “These two stones were laid by the care and 
 charge of Edward Corbett, D.D., rector of this church, 
 [see List of Rectors, p. 50,] sometime fellow of ISIerton 
 college in Oxon, who died in London 5th January, 
 1G57, and was buried here on the 14th of the same 
 month, but nobody took care to put on or fill up the 
 inscription to the said stone. lie was born at Ponts- 
 bury in Shropshire, and descended from the ancient 
 family of the Corbetts there. His arms at his funeral 
 were. Or, 2 ravens in pale sable. IMargaretta Corbett 
 was his wife, and daughter of Sir Nath. Brent, Warden 
 sometime of Merton college. She was buried by [near] 
 her little son Robert, 5tb March, 1G5G.” 
 
 No. 7. — A brass to Nicholas Enylejield. (See List of 
 Lords of the Manor of Ricote, p. 140.) 
 
 Iptc jaect 'Xicf)us lEngUfclK ^nntg’ qiionUa s’btcns Horn’ 
 
 Computor’ in Ijospiiio Dni Biti nup’ Beg’ angl’ qui obiit 1“ 
 bie Upctlis tju’ ate pptcictur Qcus. ^men. 
 
 The greater part of the brass was lost in Delafield’s 
 time ; the inscription, however, still remains, and is at 
 present (1848) placed upright against the south wall 
 of the chancel. (For the arms of Englcfield, see List, 
 p. 103. In the Roll of Arms of Edward II. a “ Sire 
 Roger de Yngelfeld,” of “ Barkshire,” is recorded as 
 bearing very nearly the same arms with those given 
 at p. 103.) Lee has in MS. in reference to the above 
 
 G 
 
82 
 
 APPENDIX E. 
 
 inscription, “ sometime controller of the house to Kynge 
 Richard, ob. 1st April, 1415.” 
 
 No. 8. — Thyune records the following — “ Of your 
 charytye praye for the sowle of Nicholas Grene, the 
 ^yche Xicolas decesed the 17 daj’e of Septemb. in the 
 yere of our Lord God 1431, one whose sowle and one 
 ♦ * :jc * [-V Christian] sowles Jesus have mercye.” 
 
 Wood mentions “a stone in chancel with inscription 
 for Nich. Grene, who died 1529.” It is possible that 
 Thynne may have accidentally made a mistake as to 
 the year, and that Wood’s date is the correct one ; the 
 style of the inscription is more in accordance with 
 those of the sixteenth than those of the early part of 
 the fifteenth century. Lee, however, has in his !MS. 
 “Nicholas Grene, ob. 1529,” which is conclusive. 
 
 No. 9. — “ Hie jacet Richardus de Gardforde, Abbas 
 de Abendon, bonus et mansuetus, cujus anime propi- 
 tietur Deus. Amen.” Thynne merely gives the in- 
 scription, but does not speak of its position in the 
 church. If the arched tomb, adjoining the sedilia in 
 the chancel, be the resting place of the abbot, which 
 on the whole seems very probable, from the traces of 
 the cross still visible, the date of the tomb and sedilia 
 (w'hich appear contemporary) is brought down thirty 
 years lower than their general style would suggest. 
 The Abbot Gardforde died in 1331 (See note at 
 p. 19.) 
 
 No. 10. — In the Blackall mausoleum in the chancel 
 is the following inscription on a handsome mural 
 tablet, (for its style,) — “ Subter depositus est Georgius 
 Blackall, armig. uxoris amantissimus, pauperum per- 
 petuus fautor, omnibus flebilis, obiit 27" die Maii, 
 1709.” (See List of Arms, p. 89.) 
 
 “ See Stevens’ addition to Dugdale's “ Mon.,” edit 1722, vol. i. p. .510. 
 Brown Willis’s “ History of the Mitred Parliamentary Abbeys,” vol. i. p. 
 7. Addenda, p. .51 of edit of 1718. 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 83 
 
 MONUMENTS, &C. IN THE NAVE. 
 
 No. 11. — On a grave-stone, “Robert Greening, died 
 August 17, 1652.” [D.] 
 
 No. 12. — On anotlier stone, “Anne Smith, died July- 
 17, 1652.” She was sister to the above Robert Green- 
 ing, observes Delafield. 
 
 No. 13. — “ S. I. Rev‘^“’ Jobes Whistler, A.M. olim e 
 Coll : Trin : Oxon : Soe : Cora : — euj : memoranda pro- 
 bitas, sobrietas, leuitas, (et pne aliis eura pro relig : 
 reformat :) exeraplum vitaj tibi sit. Nat : 1° Renat ; 8° 
 Janu : 1636. Denat : 1° Feb : 1720. Ae etiam D“® 
 Eliza Whistler fidissima uxor ejus; quse obiit 15“ Mali, 
 1729. setat : 77. ‘ Currite ut obtineatis.”' [D.] For 
 
 arms, see p. 101. 
 
 No. 14. — The H. MS. states that “in the middle ile 
 on a marble stone on y* ground is this inscription en- 
 graven. ‘Hie sepultus est Johannes Whistler eivitatis 
 Oxon : reeordator, in quatuor parliament : burgus, in 
 Grays Inne London assessor, vere doetrinae amator et 
 patromis, in lege et Evangelio constans et fidelis.^” 
 Of this Wood remarks, “ This seems to have been laid 
 by himself, or at least made.” 
 
 No. 15. — The H. MS. adds, “on y® like stone hard 
 by, this — ‘ Here lyeth the body of Hugh Whistler. 
 
 ‘ In vertue, old age, and paternity, 
 
 Is truest honour and nobility.’ ” 
 
 No. 16. — Delafield gives the following inscription, 
 but does not mention its position : — “ Hie jacet !Marga- 
 retta uxor Andrese Durcll. Hie sepulta fuit Martis die 
 3“ 168’. ‘ Deus, qui me ilia privavit, justissiraus, sanc- 
 
 tissimus, cur murmuravi?’” (See List of Rectors, p. 
 50.) 
 
 No. 17. — Lee gives the following, but does not spe- 
 G 2 
 
84 
 
 APPENDIX E. 
 
 cify its locality. “ John Grynyng also his wife * ♦ * ♦ 
 John ob : 12 June, 1523.” 
 
 IN SOUTH AISLE. 
 
 No. 18. — A brass, which still remains: the inscription 
 of which is recorded by Thxjnne, and the Ilarleian MS. 
 [//.], though they slightly vary in their reading. Thynne 
 has in the second line “quod es,” the //. MS. “quod 
 sis.” The latter appears, from an inspection of the 
 brass, to be the true reading. 
 
 (!i2uisquis ciis qui tiansitiis sta ptospicc plora 
 Sum quotl eris (ucram quotr sis pro me pitcor ora. 
 late iacct 2!^illm Hcimt^all Dc quonDam Kominus Dr 
 TacMorDc qui obiit 28“ Die mensis Junit 
 
 Dm CdTffiffi Iimfaii. tuj. ait ppicitt’ Dc. 
 
 ‘ lie had three sounes, and thre daughters,’ adds 
 Thynne. The brass, in addition to the above inscrip- 
 tion, represents a man in his winding sheet, with a 
 scroll at his mouth with the words, ‘ (D honC 3)^^^ * * * 
 3)tSU mfscreve inci.’ (See List of Lords of the !Manor, 
 p. 67, and List of Arms, p. 89.) 
 
 The “Roll of the battle of Azincourt,” (Sir H. Nico- 
 las’s edit. pp. 128, 381,) records that Sir Rowland 
 Lenthall was one of the chief persons in the English 
 army; in King Henry’s retinue he was attended by 12 
 men at arms and 36 foot archers ; and at the battle he 
 had “8 Lances and 33 archers” as followers. (The 
 Appendix to the Roll, p. 17, mentions that Sir Rowland 
 L. “received a quantity of plate in security for his 
 wages, as did many others,” on that occasion.) 
 
 No. 19. — “On a stone this engraven.” [//.] 'Here 
 lyeth the body of Luke Taylor, who was buryed !May 
 y® 25‘‘* Anno Dni 1647, who hath left by will a very 
 considerable estate for the poor of Haseley for ever.’ 
 
 No. 20. — On a mural tablet, (1848.) “ William 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 85 
 
 Woolfe died January 15, 1739, aged 63; and Frances 
 his wife died January 1, 1751, aged 65 ; their son John 
 Woolfe died June 11, 1764, aged 57 ; and Elizabeth his 
 wife died Nov. 13, 1755, aged 45; and their children, 
 William Cosmas Woolfe, died March 24, 1764, aged 24, 
 and Charles Woolfe died Sept. 13, 1768, aged 20.” 
 (See List of Arms, p. 100.) 
 
 IN NORTH AISLE. 
 
 No. 21. — A brass, of which the following is the in- 
 scription. 
 
 Turt Itct!) barpcli tbc boUo of tramc Sniian ffotsin sotnttimc totifc of sti 
 
 l^ubarD Sotolrr of l^ocotc Itnig^tc d' toljid) tfcccssttj p* 12 Dai of 
 flngnst in 
 
 P' pert of 0 lotDr GoD J^t.'T'.ubii o tofios’ sonlt 3bu f>abt mtrtp. 'amen. 
 
 Issuing from the mouth of the figure, on a scroll, is 
 the following prayer. 
 
 Stlicta {nbtmnt' met ct ignoramias mcas nc mtmincris 
 5tD libera me Dnt Dc morte ettrna in Die ilia tremenDa. 
 
 The arms on Dame Julian Fowler’s tomb were as 
 follows, on the authority of Lee and Thynne. 
 
 Two coats. I. Quarterly, i. Argent, three wolves’ 
 heads erased gules, within a bordure or, [azure, 
 Thynne^ charged with castles azure, [or, Thynne^ 
 Fowler, [though Lee gives the name Brecknocke.] 
 ii. Ermine, on a canton gules an owl . . . . ? Lee and 
 Wood give this coat, as well as the preceding, to the 
 name Fowler. [The Gentleman’s ^Magazine for August 
 1840, p. 171, gives the name Barton.] See Wood’s 
 MSS. 14. D. and E. 1. iii. Barry of six, argent and 
 gules, a bend of the second ; on a chief or a lion passant 
 azure ; Englefield. And iv. Vairee, argent and gules, 
 Gresley ; with, over all, an inescutcheon. Gules, a fesse 
 argent between four dexter hands couped or ; Quatre- 
 
8fi 
 
 APPKNDIX E. 
 
 MAIN. The foregoing coats form the Baron side of the 
 shield. II. [Impaled by I.] the paternal coat of Dame 
 Julian Fowler, viz.. Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent, (?) 
 a chevron between three lozenges ermine; Shaa, Sha, 
 
 or Shaw. 2nd and 3rd, ? a fesse engrailed, 
 
 between six quatrefoils, (mullets?) ? Ilam. 
 
 Thyune has the following note in reference to the 
 above inscription. “This Juliaue was daughter to Sir 
 John Sha, mayor of Loudon; [in 1502.] Tliis Sir 
 Kicharde had two wives, whereof this Julian was the 
 seconde, by whome he had Johue, Thomas, and Mar- 
 garet w*^’'* Christofre M’ighott maried. By his first 
 wyfe he had George an ideot, Edwarde of w*'*' Edwarde 
 the Fowlers of Bedfordshyre did come, for he that 
 Fowler w'*> died in Bedfordshire a® 1582 was souue to 
 this Sir Kicharde Fowler that was [.»/>ace left blank by 
 Thynne'] of the Duchye of Lancaster ; >vho marietl the 
 daughter and heyre of Richard Quatermayue of Ricot 
 Esquire and of Sybell his wife.” 
 
 Compare Leland’s account of the Quatermayne and 
 Fowler connection at p. 70. lie supplies the word 
 which Tliyune left blank in the above remarks, vi*., 
 ‘ Chancellor' of the di:chy of Lancaster. 
 
 No. 22. — “ In this aisle also Wood mentions a monu- 
 ment, (observes Dclafield,) or gravestone, to Sir Richard 
 Brecknocke and Sibila Fowler bis wife.” Lee is the only 
 one of the other authorities who alludes to the name of 
 Brecknocke. lie records a coat of arms (see List, No. 
 117, p. 102.) impaling the coat which both he and Wood 
 assign to the name Fowler, (viz.. Ermine, on a canton 
 gules an owl or ;) but to which in the notice of Dame 
 Julian Fowler’s tomb above the name of Barton has 
 also been attributed, on the authority of the Gentle- 
 man’s Magazine for August, 18-10, p. 170. Annexed to 
 his sketch of the coat he adds in manuscript, Rich, 
 
 1 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 87 
 
 Brecknocke son of Rob. Brecknocke Esq. and Sibill his 
 wife : ob : y* 28 May 1485, on a grave stone.” 
 
 FAMILY NAMES, 
 
 THE ARMS OP WHICH FORMERLY EXISTED EITHER IN STAINED GLASS IN 
 THE WINDOWS, OR ON THE MONUMENTS, OF HASELEY CHURCH. 
 
 I. Lords of the Manor of IIaseley. 
 
 Basset. — Argent, three bars undee gules. [H. D.“] 
 
 L. records a coat as in the church windows, \iz.. Bang 
 nehult of six, or and gules, which in Collins s “ Peerage,” viii. 
 50*2, is assigned to the Basset family. The Roll of Arms of 
 Edward III. (p. 40) gives the frst of these bearings to the 
 name — “ . . . Basset, port tine daunsy d' argent et goules de tj 
 peeces,'' exactly as exhibited formerly in the church windows ; 
 though in the same roll another Basset has the bearing, (p. 21,) 
 Ermine, on a chief indented gules two mullets argent. Very 
 similar coats to this last were borne by two brothers. Sir 
 Edmund and Sir John Basset, at the siege of Carlarerock, 
 A.D. 1300°. They were knights of the county of Glouces- 
 ter, but one of their coats (see No. 35 in general List of Arms) 
 was formeily to be seen amongst those in Haseley church 
 windows. Another coat, different from any of the above, is 
 given in the Roll of Henry III. (p. 12) to Rauf de Bassett, 
 viz., “ <for a trois petes de gouts ung quartre de ermyns and 
 the same coat again occurs in that of Edward II. (p. 8) as 
 that of a “ Sire Rauf Basset,” whilst (at p. 93 of the same 
 roll) a “ Sire Wm. Basset” bore. Argent, two bars azure, in 
 chief three chaplets of roses gules. The Harleian MS., 245, 
 again gives anotlier coat, under Glover s authority, to “ Ra- 
 dulp’ Basset,” viz.. Paly of six, or and gules, a border azure 
 bezantee : being differenced from that assigned by the Rolls of 
 Hen. III. and Edward II. (mentioned just above) to the same 
 name. If these several persons of the name were of the same 
 
 o The several authorities are appended, as before mentioned. See 
 p. 76. 
 
 • Sir H. N., “ Carlav. Poem," pp. 82, 363. 
 
88 
 
 APPENDIX E. 
 
 family descent, the remark elsewhere made (p. 117) that 
 coats of arms had scarcely become family distinctions at the 
 commencement of the 13th century, will apply even to so late 
 a period as the reign of Edward II. (See List of Lords of the 
 Manor, pp. 58 — 65.) 
 
 Despencer. — Quarterly, argent and gules; the 2nd and 
 3rrf quarters fretty or; over all a bend sable. [L. 
 II. D.] 
 
 The above coat occurs in the Roll of Henrj- III. It was 
 again borne by one of the family at the siege of Carlaverock ; 
 and finally it appears amongst those of Edward II. 's roll. 
 (See List of Lords of the Manor, p. 65, and “ Memoir of Dor- 
 Chester Church,” p. 115.) 
 
 Hugh le Despencer, son of the celebrated chief justiciary of 
 England, was born about 1236; he married Aliva, heiress of 
 the last of the Basset family, who was lord of Haseley. 
 
 Bigod. — Or, a cross gules. [L. W. D.] 
 
 Delafield refers to this coat (as above blazoned) as being 
 in Westminster Abbey ; and Sir Harris Nicolas, in his edition 
 of the Roll of Edward II., mentions the same coat, amongst 
 others, as remaining in 1829 in the same edifice. The Roll of 
 Henry III., however, mentions “ Rafe Bigot” as bearing dor 
 ung crois de yotiles, a les escalops d' argent en le croix ; which 
 latter coat again a “Sire Rauf Bygod” is recorded as bearing 
 in that of Edward II. 
 
 England. — Gules, three lions passant gardant or. [H. 
 L. W.] 
 
 These arms were more than once repeated in the windows 
 of the church, the result of its connection with King Edward 
 I. and other successive sovereigns, or members of the royal 
 family, as lords of the manor. (See pp. 65, 66.) 
 
 Bohun. — Azure, a bend argent, cotised or, between six 
 lions rampant of the third. [L. D.] 
 
 These arms occur in the Rolls of Henry III. and Edward II , 
 and in the “ Poem of Carlaverock.” 
 
APPKSDIX E. 
 
 89 
 
 Pypard. — Argent, two bars azure; on a canton of the 
 second, a cinquefoil [or, starl or. [L. II. D. The 
 latter adds, “ in the chancel window in my time.”] 
 
 Leynthall. — Argent, on a bend sable, cotised or, three 
 mullets of the field. [L. T. II. W. 1).] 
 
 Delafield in giving the above coat to the first founder of the 
 Oxfordshire Leynthalls, as testified by the “ Brass,” (see List 
 of Monuments,) observes that it is a “ very different coat from 
 that borne by his posterity here.” He speaks of a coat of 
 arms in the “ south chantry” as being that of the Leynthalls, 
 lords of Haseley, viz.. Sable, 4 lozenges in bend argent. Lee, 
 however, records both coats, assigning the first to the name 
 Leynthall, and twice mentioning the second, as quartering, 
 and being quartered by the first. (See No. 149, 151, List of 
 Arms, p. 107.) 
 
 Cutler. Sir John Cutler, lord of Haseley. — Azure, 
 three dragons’ heads erased or ; a chief argent. [D.] 
 
 Roberts, earl of Radnor, lord of Haseley. — Azure, 
 three etoiles and a chief wavy or. [D.] 
 
 The Blackalls, lords of Haseley. Argent, a grey- 
 hound courant sable : on a chief dansette, (or in- 
 dented,) of the second, three bezants. 
 
 The Longs, lords of Haseley. [1848.] — Sable, a lion ram- 
 pant between eight cross crosslets argent ; — impaling. 
 Or, a spread eagle displayed sable, charged with a 
 crown of the first: in chief the word Trafalgar; 
 being the arms of Walter Long, Esq., and Lady 
 Mary Long, his wife, the daughter of the earl of 
 Northesk. 
 
90 
 
 APPENDIX E. 
 
 II. General List 
 
 OF ALL THE COATS OF ARMS, FORMERLY IN HASELEV CHURCH, WITH 
 FAMILY NAMES, AND THE POSITION OF THE COATS IN THE CHURCH, 
 WHEN ASCERTAINED. 
 
 The several authorities arc added, as before ; L. for Lee; T. for Thynne; 
 
 W. for Wood ; II. the Harleian MS. ; G. Glover ; and D. Delafield. 
 The several coats are numbered throughout, and they have been arranged 
 according to their fields, for more convenient reference. Those which 
 occurred more than once in the windows of the church have the word 
 repeated appended. 
 
 Chancel. 
 
 East fflndow. 
 
 Ko. 1. Or, three ehevrons gules, [repeated.'] [L. II. 
 W.] De Clare. 
 
 See “ Dorchester Abbey Memoir,” p. 120. A daughter of 
 this house married Hugh le Despencer. See List of Lords of 
 the Manor of Haseley. The arms of De Clare occur in the 
 Roll of Henry III., in the “ Carlaverock Poem,” and again in 
 the Roll of Edward II. They were still remaining in West- 
 minster ahbey in 1829, on the authority of Sir Harris Nicolas. 
 
 No. 2. Or, two bars gules, and in chief three torteaux. 
 [II. G. W.] Lord Wake. 
 
 Sec Rolls of Henry HI. and Edward IL, and “ Dorchester 
 Abbey Mem.,” p. 46. 
 
 No. 3. Checquee, Or and sable, a fesse gules. [L. II. 
 W.] Lord Clifford? 
 
 See “Dorch. Ab. Mem.,” p. 117 ; “ Carlav. Poem,” and Roll 
 of Ed. II. By the last two authorities the coat of Lord Clifford 
 is blazoned, “ or and azure.” Both L. and H. give “ or and 
 sable” but very probably the dark blue colour of the glass was 
 mistaken for sable, and the coat should have been blazoned, as 
 the Rolls &c. have given it. 
 
 No. 4. Or, a lion rampant sable. [H. W,] De Welles. 
 
 This coat is attributed to the above name, in the Rolls of 
 Ed. II. and Ed. HI., and in the “ Carlav. Poem.” Hugh de 
 Welles was bishop of Lincoln from 1209 to 1234. See p. 43. 
 
AKMS KOKMKIM.Y IN IIASKI.KY (’nUliCll 
 
 * The coats marked thus were formerly in Haseley Church, — the first seven being those of the Lords of the 
 Manor. 
 
 t Coats marked thus were formerly in Ryeote Chapel. 
 
 ♦ t Those thus distinguished, in both Haseley Church and Ryeote Chapel. 
 
 t. I>’K*prnp^r 
 
 IS. Rich«nJ, carl of Corawall. 
 
 * 
 
 IS. De SI«fnarlU«. 
 
OH IN' UYCOTK OH A PHI,. 
 
 21. Knurr MndFng>iiB<l. 
 
 2S. Crry uf Rolhrrflcld. 
 
 ■ V ■ 
 
 34. Hrauchituip. 
 
 29. Lord Wilhsoi of Th*ine 
 
 3i. Lytlirtoa de Krankirr. 
 
 t 
 
APl’KNDIX E. 
 
 91 
 
 No. 5. Quarterly, or and gules. \repeated.'\ [II. W. D.] 
 De Magna viLLE. 
 
 See Camden, Middlesex, and List of Lords of the Manor of 
 Rycote. 
 
 No. 6. Or, two bars gules. [H. \V.] 
 
 This coat is thus given by H. It may possibly have been 
 a partially defaced duplicate of No. 2. 
 
 No. 7. Argent, two bars azure, on a canton of the 
 second a cinquefoil (? star of five points) or. \re- 
 peated.'] [H. L. D. AV.] Pypaiid. 
 
 See List of Lords of the Manor. 
 
 No. 8. Argent, four bars gules, on a canton of the 
 second a star of six [eight ?] points of the first. [H. 
 AA’^. D. — L. has the “star” or.] AA'^ace. 
 
 See Roll of Ed. II., “Guide to the Archit. Antiq. near 
 Oxford,” pp. 312, 316. 
 
 No. 9. Argent, a che\Ton gules. \repeated.~\ [L. H. 
 AA'". D.] Lord Tyes. 
 
 See “ Carlaverock Poem,” and the Rolls of Ed. II. and Ed. 
 III., “ Dorch. Ab. Mem.,” p. 48. 
 
 No. 10. Argent, crusilly gules and three fleurs-de-lis 
 sable. [L. II. AV.] 
 
 No. 11. Quarterly, argent and gules, in the first 
 quarter a mullet of the second. [AA'^.] 
 
 No. 12. Argent, a lion rampant gules, within a border 
 sable bezantee. [repeated^] [II. L. AV^. T. The latter 
 says, “a bordure or and sable.”~\ Richard, (second 
 son of King John,) earl of Cornwall, and king 
 of the Romans. 
 
 See “ Dorch. Ab. Mem.,” p. 48, and Rolls of Hen. III. and 
 Ed. II. This coat was very probably placed in the church by 
 Bishop Fulco Basset, in honour of his friend and patron See 
 List of Lords of the Manor. 
 
92 
 
 APPEXniX E. 
 
 No. 13. Argent, two bars and a canton gules, [re- 
 peated.'] [II. "W.] 
 
 No. 14. Barry of six, argent and azure, a bendlet 
 gules, [repeated.] [II. L. G. W.] Lord Grey of 
 Kotherfield. 
 
 See “ Dor. Ab. Mem.,” p. -47. 
 
 No. 15. Quarterly, argent and gules, the second and 
 third quarters fretty or; over all a bend sable, [re- 
 peated.] [L. II. W. D.] Le Despencer. 
 
 See List of Lords of the Manor, Rolls of Henry III. and 
 Ed. II., and “ Poem of Carlav. also “ Dorch. Ab. Mem.,” 
 p. 115. 
 
 No. 16. Argent, a border gobonated azure and or. 
 [W. D.] 
 
 No. 17. Gules, three fleurs-de-lis argent. [L. H.AV. D.] 
 See No. 137, p. 105. 
 
 No. 18. Gules, a castle triple towered or. Castile, 
 quarterly with. Argent, a lion rampant sable. Leon. 
 [II. L. W.] 
 
 See List of Lords of the Manor, King Edward and 
 “Dorch. Ab. Mem.,” p. 118. 
 
 No. 19. Gules, two lions passant gardant [argent?], 
 within a border indented argent [or?] [repeated^ 
 [II. W.] 
 
 The above, except the border, is the coat of De la Mare. 
 See “ Guide, Arch. Antiq. near Oxford,” p. 387. The coat of 
 Giffard, three liotis passant gardant argent, is given in 
 
 the Roll of Henry HI. 
 
 No, 20. Gules, three lions passant gardant or. [re- 
 peated.] [L. II. "W.] Exgl.and. 
 
 See List of Lords of the Manor, and the royal hands into 
 which the lordship passed. 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 93 
 
 No. 21. Gules, a cross or. [repeated.'] [II. W.] Lord 
 Latymer ? 
 
 See “ Dorcli. Ab. Mem.,” p. 46. 
 
 No. 22. Gules, a cross argent, [repeated.] [H. W.] 
 No. 23. Quarterly, gules and or. [II.] 
 
 No. 24. Quarterly, gules and or; in the first quarter 
 a star of six points of the second. [L. H. W.] De 
 Verb. II. repeats this coat, with the exception of 
 the star, which is argent. 
 
 The “ Poem of Carl.,” and the Rolls of Henry III. and Edw. 
 II., blazon this coat. Quarterly, or and gtdes ; in the Jirst 
 quarter a mullet argent, which, according to modern rules, is 
 false heraldry. See “ Dorch. Ab. Mem.,” p. 108. 
 
 No. 25. Per pale gules and argent, a fesse of the 
 second. [I'epeated.] [II. W. The latter has * * a 
 fesse counterchangedT] 
 
 No. 26. Gules, two lions passant gardant or ; a chief 
 paly of the field and azure. [W.] 
 
 No. 27. Azure, three bucks’ heads cabossed or. [L. H. 
 W. D.] 
 
 No. 28. Azure, semee of fleurs-de-lis or. France, quar- 
 terly with England. [H. W.] 
 
 This coat may perhaps have been added to the others in 
 Ilaseley church windows, in honour of Margaret of France, 
 second wife of King Edward I. See List of Lords of the 
 Manor, and “ Dorch. Ab. Mem.,” p. 114. 
 
 No. 29. Paly of six, azure and argent, on a bend gules 
 three escallops or. [rcjoeaferf.] [H. W.] Compare No. 
 122 . 
 
 No. 30. Azure, an inescutcheon argent, within an orle 
 of martlets or. [repeated.] [II. W.] 
 
 No. 31. Azure, a bend argent, cotised or, between six 
 lioncels rampant of the third. [W.] Bohun. 
 
 See List of Lords of the Manor, p. 67. 
 
94 
 
 APPENDIX E. 
 
 No. 32. Sable, a bend argent between six lions rampant 
 or. \repeated^ [II. "W.] 
 
 No. 33. Sable, semee of crosses patee fitcliee and three 
 fleurs-de-lis or. [D.] 
 
 No. 34. Ermine, on a fesse gules three bucks’ heads 
 cabossed or. [repeated.'] [L. D. T. II. The two latter 
 have “three billets or,” and W. supplies the name, 
 ^Iaylyngs, or Molyngs, to the latter blazon.] 
 
 This coat is quartered by Barrentyne. See List of Monu- 
 ments, p. 77. 
 
 No. 35. Ermine, on a chief gules three mullets or. 
 [repeated.] [H. W.] 
 
 A coat very nearly resembling the above was borne by Sir 
 Edmund Basset, at the siege of Carlaverock. See List of Arms 
 of the Lords of the Manor, p. 87. 
 
 No. 3G. Ermine, two bars gules. [I'epeated.] [L. II. AV.] 
 This coat (with the addition of a demi-Uon rampant in chief 
 gules) is quartered by Drayton. See “ Guide,” See., p. 328, 
 
 No. 37. [Field doubtful] ? six annulets . . . ? 
 
 [repeated.] [L. II. W. D.] 
 
 See the account of the Plecy arms at p. 119, “ Dorch. Ab. 
 Mem.,” and the “ Rolls” of Arms by Sir Harris Nicolas. 
 
 No. 38 ? a lion rampant ? [re- 
 
 peated.] [II.] 
 
 Possibly the aims of Leon. See No. 18. 
 
 No. 39 ? three bars, . . . . ? a canton 
 
 ermine. [II. AV.] 
 
 No. 40 ? fretty of four azure, within 
 
 every space a fleur-de-lis or. [W.] 
 
 Wood gives a coat as in the great east window, viz. Quar- 
 terly 1st and 4th, the above coat, N. 40; 2nd, England ; 3rd, 
 No. 26, as given before. 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 95 
 
 SOUTH WINDOWS. 
 
 No. 41. Or, a cross gules. [L. W. D.] Bigod. See 
 List of Lords of the Manor. 
 
 No. 42. No. 2. \repeated^ Lord Wake. [II.] 
 
 No. 43. Dc Veue, [repeated-] see No. 24. [H. W.] 
 
 No. 44. Pypard, [repeated;] see No. 7. [II. W.] 
 
 No. 45. Argent, two bars sable ; on a chief or, a demi- 
 lion rampant issuant gules. [II. W.] See No. 99. 
 W. gives nearly a similar coat as being in the “ side aisles.” 
 No. 46. Richard, earl of Cornwall, and king of 
 the Romans: as before. No. 12. [II. W.] 
 
 No. 47. Argent, a cross gules. [II. also in the “ belfry 
 window.”] St. George. 
 
 No. 48. Lc Despencer, as before. No. 15. [H.] 
 
 No. 49. No. 10. [repeated.] [II. W.] 
 
 No. 50. Wage, as before. No. 8. [H. W.] 
 
 No. 51. No. 17. [repeated.] [II. W.] 
 
 No. 52. Paly of six, gules and or. [repeated.] [L. II. 
 W.] The two last record a coat, identical perhaps with 
 the above, viz., Gules, three pales or, as being in the 
 north window of the chancel. See No. 75. 
 
 No. 53. Sable, crossuly crossletty and two pipes in pile 
 or. [L. II. W.] Trumpington. 
 
 See the engraving of the brass of Sir Roger de Trumping- 
 ton, in Boutell’s “ Mon. Brasses and Slabs,” p. 30. 
 
 No. 54. Sable, three cups covered or. [repeated.] [II. 
 L. and D. The two latter have, besides the above coat, 
 gules, &c. &c. &c.] Butler. Sec List of Rectors, p. 
 47, and List of jMonuments, p. 80. 
 
 The Roll of Hen. III. records that “ Monsier Edmond le 
 Botcler port d'asure a trois coupes d’ or.” The colour of the 
 field may have been mistaken by L. The same bearing appa- 
 
9G 
 
 APPENDIX E. 
 
 rently appears on the shield of a cross-legged effigy of Str John 
 de Botiler, c. 1285. See Boutell's “ Mon. Brasses and Slabs,” 
 p. 159. 
 
 No. 55. No. 34. [repeated.'] [II. W.] 
 
 No. 56. No. 35. [repeated.] [H. "W.] 
 
 No. 57. Ermine, on abend gules [or, L.] three chevrons 
 or, [gules, L.] [repeated.] [L. II. W. The latter and 
 Lee have the bend or, and the chevrons gules.] 
 
 Lee gives this coat as occurring in llycote chapel, impaled 
 by Quatermayne. Wood supplies the name, Bhecley. 
 
 NORTH WINDOWS. 
 
 No. 58. Checquee or and azure, [repeated.] [L. II.] 
 Earl Warren. 
 
 This coat occurs in the Rolls of Henry III. and Ed. II., and 
 in the “ Carlaverock Poem.” It was still remaining in West- 
 minster abbey in 1829. See “ Uorch. Abbey Mem.,” p. 106, 
 and the remarks there on the colours of the coat. Lee has 
 given the blazon in the case of Haseley church correctly, as 
 above. 
 
 No. 59. Or, on a fesse gules six fleurs-de-lis of the field, 
 a border of the second. [II.] 
 
 No. 60. De Clare, as before. No. 1. [repeated^ [H. 
 W.] 
 
 No. 61. Wake, as before. No. 2. [repeated.] [II. W.] 
 No. 62. Clifford? as before. No. 3. [repeated!] [II. W.] 
 No. 63. Pypard, as before. No. 7. [repeated.] [II. W.] 
 
 No. 64. Lord Tyes, as before. No. 9. [repeated!] [II. 
 W.] 
 
 No. 65. Le Despencer, as before. No. 15. [H. W.] 
 [repeated.] 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 97 
 
 No. 66. E. of Cornwall and King of the Romans, as 
 before, No. 12. [repeated.'] [II. W.] 
 
 No. 67. No. 10. [repeated.] [H. W.] 
 
 No. 68. Argent, a bend or (?), between six cross cross- 
 lets sable. [H. W.] 
 
 Lee records a coat somewhat similar to the above, as being 
 in Rycote chapel, viz.. Argent, a bend between six Jteurs-de-lis 
 gules. The blazon as given above, on the authority of H. and 
 W., is false heraldry, according to modern rules. 
 
 No. 69. Argent, on a chevron sable five bezants, [re- 
 peated.] [H. W.] 
 
 Lee records a coat in Haseley church possibl)' the same with 
 the above, viz., Argent, a chevron or charged with pellets. 
 
 No. 70. Basset — Argent, three bars nebule gnles. [H. 
 W. D.] 
 
 See List of Arms of Lords of the Manor. 
 
 No. 71. No. 19. [repeated^ [II. AV.] Delamare, or 
 Giffard. 
 
 No. 72. No. 23. [repeated.] [II. AV.] 
 
 No. 73. De A''ere, as before, No. 24. [rcj9ea/ec7.] [II. AA^] 
 No. 74. No. 52. [repeated.] [H.] 
 
 No. 75. Gules, three pales or. [II. AA".] See No. 52. 
 
 No. 76. Sable, fretty or ; on a chief of the second three 
 pellets. [II. AY. D.] 
 
 Lee records a coat the same most probably with the above, 
 viz.. Sable, fretty or; on a chief of the second three torteaux. 
 See No. 143. p. 105. In the roll of Hen. III., the name Mau- 
 travers bears Sable, fretty or. 
 
 No. 77. Sable, a bend gules between six fleurs-de-lis 
 or. [L. — The II. MS. AA^. and D. have ihe fleurs-de- 
 lis argent.] 
 
 No. 78. Sable, an estoile or, within an orle of bezants. 
 [II. AV.] 
 
 u 
 
98 
 
 APPENDIX E. 
 
 No. 79. Sable, a fesse gules between six fleurs-de-lis or. 
 [D.] 
 
 No. 80. Sable, six fleurs-de-lis or, within a border gules. 
 [H. W. D.] 
 
 No. 81. Maylyngs, or Molyxs. \repeated^ See No. 
 34, and the aceount of the Barrentyne tomb. [II. W.] 
 
 No. 82. Ermine, a chief or. [II. W.] 
 
 No. 83 ? crusilly crossletty, a fesse gules 
 
 between six fleurs-de-lis or. [II. W.] 
 
 In the Blaekall mausoleum, in the chancel, the follow- 
 ing arms are to be seen at present (1848) exhibited on 
 hatchments, and on the mural monument to “ Georgius 
 Blaekall, Annig.” who died in 1709. 
 
 No. 84. Black ALL. Argent, a greyhound courant 
 sable, on a chief dansette [or indented] of the second 
 three bezants. 
 
 No. 85. Blackall, impaling. Ermine, a squirrel gules. 
 I. Quarterly i. and iv. Blackall. 
 ii. and hi. 
 
 Per 
 
 pale 
 
 Or, two bars gules frette 
 of the field, a chief 
 dansette of the second. 
 
 II. Argent (?) three boars’ faces ? issuaut 
 
 from as many cups or. 
 
 On the mural monument — 
 
 Per 
 
 pale 
 
 I. Quarterly i. and iv. Blackall. 
 
 ii. and iii. Argent, on a fesse, be- 
 tween three escal- 
 ^ lops (?) gules, as many 
 
 cross- crosslets or. 
 
 II. Sable, a chevron embattled or, between three 
 I white roses. 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 99 
 
 NORTH AISLE WINDOWS. 
 
 No. 86. Argent, three wolves’ heads erased gules. [L. 
 II. D.] 
 
 Thijnne blazons the first coat on Dame Julian Fowler's tomb, 
 (see List of Monuments, See.) thus : — Argent, three wolves' heads 
 erased gules, within a bordure azure charged with castles or. The 
 name Fowler and Brecknocke have both been attributed to 
 this latter coat, the latter name by Lee. See below, No. 97. 
 
 No. 87. Argent, two wolves [talbots?] passant gnles. 
 [L. II. "NV., the latter gives the name.] Bretton, im- 
 paled by Quatermayne. See below. No. 90. 
 
 No. 88. Vaire, argent and gules, Gresley, impaled by 
 Quatermayne. [II.] 
 
 No. 89. Gules, a fosse argent [azure, Glover; and if so 
 false heraldry], between four dexter hands couped or. 
 Quatremain. [L. G. II. W. D.] 
 
 No. 90. Quatremain as above, impaling Bretton. See 
 No. 87. [II. L.] 
 
 south aisle windows. 
 
 No. 91. Gresley, [as No. 88.] impaling. Argent on a 
 bend sable three martlets [mullets ?] or (?) ; in chief 
 a canton ? [II.] 
 
 No. 92. Quatremain, with inscription underneath. 
 
 See notice of the brass to Thomas Butler, rector. No. 3. in 
 List of Monuments. 
 
 No. 93. Gresley, [as No. 88.] [D. mentions “ in the 
 west window.”] 
 
 No. 94. Quatremain [see No. 89.] impaling Gresley, 
 
 [D.] 
 
 No. 95. Gresley, impaling, quarterly ; I. Ermine, on 
 a canton gules an owl or : — Fowler; and, II. Argent, 
 n 2 
 
100 
 
 APPENDIX E. 
 
 on a bend [sable? H.] gules three martlets [or? H.] 
 vert — (?) Danvers. [D.] 
 
 See account of the brass monument to Dame Julian Fowler, 
 p. 85. 
 
 No. 96. WooLFE. [on a mural tablet, 1848.] Gules, a 
 chevron between three wolves’ heads erased or : with 
 an inescutcheon of pretence, gules, a lion (?) passant 
 or. 
 
 IN TIIESIDE AISLES, BUT NOT SPECIFIED IN WHICH. 
 
 No. 97. Argent, three wolves’ heads erased gules, within 
 a border azure charged with castles or. [T. W. D.] 
 'See above No. 86. 
 
 This was the Jirst coat on the tomb of Dame Julian Fowler; 
 (see List.) In a notice of Rycote chapel, Wood gives the name 
 Fowler to this coat, though Delafield imagined it to be the 
 bearing of the family of Brecknocke. ^^'ood, however, remarks 
 that the Foivlers, in addition to the above, “ also bore an owl 
 on a canton, as in Ilaseley church.” See below. No. 114. 
 
 No. 98. Argent, a fesse between three crescents sable. 
 Lee. [L. T. \V.] 
 
 See Rycote arms. No. 30; and Rycote manor, p. 147. 
 
 No. 99. Argent, two bars sable ; on a chief or, a derai- 
 lion rampant issuaut gules ; on a canton . . . ? a 
 cinquefoil . . . . ? [L. II. W.] See No. 45. 
 
 No. 100. Gules, a fesse vairee argent and sable, between 
 three fleurs-de-lis or. [L. W.] See No. 136. p. 105. 
 No. 101. Quarterly, gules and or; a border vairee or 
 and sable. [L. Wood gives “argent and sable.”] 
 No. 102. Gules, crusilly or ; a fesse between an unicorn 
 current in chief, and a cup covered in base of the 
 second. [L. W.] 
 
 Guy, earl of Warwick, at the siege of Carlaverock bore 
 Gules, crustily and a fesse or. 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 101 
 
 No. 103. No. 17. {repeated.'] [L. T. H. AV.] 
 
 No. 104. Gules, crusilly and three covered cups or. 
 [L. W.] 
 
 No. 105. Azure, a pale gules ; over all a key and sword 
 in saltire argent, handled and hilted or. [L. W.] 
 
 Both Lee and Wood give this coat as above, though “ metal 
 upon metal” is not in accordance with strict heraldic rule. 
 
 No. 106. Sable, a cinquefoil between six escallops or. 
 [W.] 
 
 No. 107. Sable, three spread eagles argent, Barren- 
 TYNE. [L. T. W. D.] 
 
 See notice of the Barrentyne tomb, p. 77. 
 
 No. 108. Sable, three chevrons argent, impaled by Bar- 
 rentyne. [L. W.] See No. 145. p. 106. 
 
 No. 109. No. 36. {repeated.] [L. II. W.] 
 
 No. 110. Sable . . . ? six fleurs-de-lis or, within a border 
 gules. [H. W. D.] 
 
 The H. MS. supplies the field, Sable. 
 
 No. Ill ? six buckles, three, two, and one. 
 
 [L. W.] 
 
 On a monument in the nave. Gules, a bend fusilly 
 argent voided, between two greyhounds courant. 
 WuisTLER. (See List of Monuments, p. 83.) 
 
 IN THE BELFRY WINDOWS. 
 
 No. 112. Argent, a cross gules. [W.] 
 
 No. 113. Quarterly, France and England, a label 
 argeut. 
 
102 
 
 APPENDIX E. 
 
 OTHER COATS OF ARMS, 
 
 FORMERLY IN THE WINDOWS OF THE CHURCH, BUT THEIR EXACT 
 LOCALITY NOT SPECIFIED, INCLUDING THOSE ON THE 
 MONUMENTS, &C. 
 
 No. 114. Gresley, impaling per fesse, I. Ermine, on a 
 canton gules an owl or, Fowler, (which name Lee 
 assigns to this coat, as well as to No. 97. in p. 100,) 
 and II. Quarterly, i. and iv., Argent, on a bend sable, 
 cotised or, three mullets of the field, Leynthall; 
 ii. and iii.. Ermine, on a bend or, three chevrons 
 gules. See No. 57. p. 9G. [L. H. W.] See below, 
 
 No. 127. 
 
 No. 115. Barry nebule or and gules. Basset.? 
 
 Sec account of the Basset arms, at page 87. The above, 
 with the addition of a “ baton, azure,” are the arms of Lovel. 
 See Roll of Edw. II. 
 
 No. 116. Barry of si.x, or and azure; a chief paly, the 
 corners gyronny ; an inescutcheon argent. Mor- 
 timer. [L.] 
 
 See the Rolls of Hen. III. and Ed. II., and the “ Carlav. 
 Poem “ Dorch. Abbey Mem.,” p. 122. 
 
 No. 117. Two coats, per pale — I. Quarterly, i. and iv.. 
 Argent on a chevron, between three gauntlets sable 
 an annulet; Brecknocke. ii. and iii. Barry, azure 
 and or, a chief of the second ; and II. Ermine, on a 
 canton gules an owl or; Fowler. 
 
 [L.] Appended to the tricking of the above coat, Lee has 
 the following remark in MS. “ Rich. Brecknocke, son of 
 Robert Brecknocke Esq™, and Sibill his wyfe, oh. y® 28 May. 
 1485. On a grave stone.” 
 
 No. 118. Argent, crusilly sable. [L.] 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 103 
 
 No. 119. Argent, a chevron between three lozenges 
 ermine. Shaa, Sha, or Shaw. [L. T.] 
 
 This coat quarterly with No. 146, forms the sinister half of 
 that on Dame Julian Fowler's tomb. See List of Monu- 
 ments, &c. p. 85. 
 
 No. 120. Argent, a chevron or charged with pel- 
 lets. [L.] 
 
 No. 121. Argent, a bend gules. [L.] 
 
 No. 122. Paly of six, argent and azure; on a bend 
 gules three escallops or. [L.] 
 
 The same coat with the exception of “ three eaglets for 
 the “ three escallops” appears in the “ Carlaverock Poem as 
 that of Grandisox. Compare No. 29. 
 
 No. 123. Argent, two bars gules. 
 
 One of Dame Julian Fowler’s quarterings. See List of 
 Monuments; this may be an imperfect blazon of the EmjleJield 
 bearing. [Thynne.] 
 
 No. 124. Englefield. Barry of six, argent and gules, 
 a bend of the second ; on a chief or, a lion passant 
 azure. 
 
 Lee thus blazons this coat as impaled by Quartermain in the 
 windows of Rijcote chapel. (See p. 151.) In his notes and 
 trickings of Church, he merely gives the 7jamc. “In- 
 
 glefield, sometime controller of the house to Kynge Richard 
 ob. y* 1st April, 1415.” (See List of Lords of the Manor of 
 Rycote, p. 140, and List of Monuments, &c. p. 81.) Glover has 
 given us a short pedigree of the Englefield family, exhibiting 
 their intermarriages with the Quartermain, Fowler, and other 
 families. (Harleian MS. 245.) His blazon of the Englefield 
 coat is somewhat different, viz. Barrrj of six, gules and argent; 
 a bend azure ; on a chief or a lion passant of the third; and yet 
 both Lee and himself took their descriptions from the same 
 glass window at Rj'cote. IVood, again, gives a third blazon ; 
 his words are ; — “ In the said windows [of Rycote chapel] are 
 the pictures of Richard Quartermayne kneeling in his armour. 
 
lot 
 
 APPENniX E. 
 
 with his arnies on liis hack, and of Sihill his wife kneeling bv 
 him, with a certain g.arinent on, according to the fashion of 
 those times ; and Qnartermayne's and her arms impaled on 
 her back also, which are these : — I. Gules, a fesse azure [L. 
 and H. arffent\ between 4 dexter hands couped or: and II. 
 Barri/ of six, argent and gules ; a bend azure ; on a chief of the 
 frst a lion passant of the third,” and a side note adds of the 
 chief, “ some have it or.” 
 
 The Roll of Arms of Edward II., under the head of “ Bark- 
 shire,” has this notice : — “Sire Roger de Yiigelfeld; — burlee 
 de argent e de goules, od le chef de or a un lion passaunt de 
 azur.” 
 
 No. 125. Argent, three fleurs-de-lis sable. [L.] 
 
 No. 126. Argent, a fesse between three boars’ faces 
 couped sable. Alphen. [L. T. II.] 
 
 This coat, quarterly with Reade,'So. IdO, is impaled by Bar- 
 rentyne. See List of Mon., p. 77. 
 
 No. 127. Argent, on a bend sable, cotised or, three 
 mullets of the field. Leynthall. 
 
 “ Wm. Leynthall, sometime Lord of Lachford,” [a manor 
 in the parish of Ilaseley,] “ oh. 29 July, 1497.” [Bee.] 
 
 No. 128. Argent, on a chief gules, two stags’ heads 
 cabossed or. Popham. [L. T.] quartered by Bar- 
 rentyne. 
 
 List of Monuments, &c. p. 77. 
 
 No. 129. Pypard, impaling Leynthall, as above. [L.] 
 No. 130. Gules, on a bend wavy argent, three coots, 
 [or choughs,] sable. Reade. [L. T. II.] 
 
 Tliis coat, quarterly with Alphen, see No. 12G, is impaled 
 by Barrentyne. See List of Mon. p. 77. 
 
 No. 131. Barry, gules and or; on a chief of the second 
 three tortcaux. [repeated.] [L.] 
 
 Compare the M'ake arms. No. 2. 
 
 No. 132. Gules, a frette argent. Huddleston. 
 
 See List of Monuments, p. 79. 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 105 
 
 No. 133. Gules (?) six fleurs-de-lis sable. [L.] 
 
 No. 134. Gules, three eups covered or; Butler. [D.] 
 See List of Rectors, p. 47, and List of Mon. p. 80. 
 
 No. 135. Gules, a fesse between six fleurs-de-lis or. [L.] 
 The Beauchamp arms are the same as the above, with the 
 exception of martlets for the Jietirs-de-lis. See “Dorch. Abbey 
 Mem.,” p. 1 13. 
 
 No. 136. Gules, a fesse vairee azure and sable, between 
 three fleurs-de-lis or. [L.] 
 
 Compare No. 100. p. 100. 
 
 No. 137. Gules, three fleurs-de-lis or. [L.] 
 
 See No. 17. p. 92. 
 
 No. 138. Quarterly, gules and or, a fesse argent. [L.] 
 
 No. 139. Azure, a bend between six cross crosslets 
 fitchee or, Drayton, quartered by Barrentyne. 
 
 [L. T. II.] 
 
 See List of Monuments, &c., p. 77, and “ Guide,” &c., p. 
 328. 
 
 No. 140. Azure, a bend argent, cotised or, between 
 six lions rampant of the third. Bohun. [L. W. D.] 
 See last of Lords of the Manor, p. 67, and Rolls of 
 Hen. III. and Ed. II.; “ Carlaverock Poem,” and “Dorch. 
 Abbey Mem.,” p. 108. 
 
 No. 141. Azure, four crosses patee, and in saltire two 
 organ pipes or. [L.] John, Lord Williams of 
 Thame. 
 
 See List of Lords of the Manor of Rycote. 
 
 No. 142. Sable, eight cinquefoils or, three, three, and 
 two. [L.] 
 
 No. 143. Sable, fretty or; on a chief of the second 
 three torteaux. [L.] 
 
 See No. 76. p. 97. In the Roll of Hen. III. the name 
 Mautravers has the bearing. Sable, fretty or. 
 
1 
 
 106 APPENDIX E. 
 
 No. 144. Two coats per pale. [L.] 
 
 I. Quarterly, i. Barentyne; ii. Drayton; iii. Pop- 
 ham; iv. Maylyngs or Molyns. 
 
 II ? on a chevron three leopards’ heads, 
 
 and in canton a cross. 
 
 The above forms the third coat on the Barrentyne tomb, see 
 p. 77. 
 
 No. 145. Barrentyne, impaling, Sable, three chevrons 
 argent. [L.] See No. 108. p. 101. 
 
 No. 146 ? a fesse engrailed between six 
 
 qnatrefoils, [mullets?] ? ilam. 
 
 This coat quarterly with Shaw, No. 119. p. 103, forms the 
 sinister half of the bearing once displayed upon Dame Julian 
 Fotcler's tomb. See List of Monuments, &c. p. 85. The 
 names Shaw and Ham have been attributed to these two coats 
 respectively, on the authority of the “Gentleman’s Magazine” 
 for August, 1840, p. 171. ^ 
 
 No. 147 ? on a chevron three leopards’ 
 
 heads, and in canton a cross . . . ? impaled by Bar- j 
 
 rentyne. j 
 
 See No. 144, above, and the third coat on the Barrentyne 
 tomb. [L. T. II.] 
 
 No. 148. Argent [azure?] on a chevron sable (?) three 
 
 fleurs-de-lis or. [L., who adds in MS., “ on a « 
 
 stone.”] D 
 
 To apologize for the insertion of the following coats of arms, though not 
 in the church, reference need only again be made to the words of 
 Dclafield, quoted at p. 74. 
 
 ARMS THAT FORMERLY APPEARED IN THE MTNDOW3 OF THE [ 
 
 MANOR HOUSE OF LITTLE HASELEY. 
 
 1 
 
 Mr. Delafield has recorded a few coats under the , 
 
 above heading. Lee and Wood have longer lists, the 
 latter seemingly based upon the former. ' i 
 
 1 ^ 
 
 I 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 107 
 
 I. Quarterly i. and iv. Argent a bend engrailed 
 
 between six martlets 
 sable. 
 
 ii. and iii. Gules [Or?] crusilly and 
 a cinquefoil in fesse 
 or, [gules?] in dexter 
 cliief a crescent for 
 difference. 
 
 II. Quarterly i. and iv. Sable, a bend fusilly or. 
 
 ii. Argent, on a bend sable, cotised or, three 
 mullets of the field. Leynthall. 
 
 iii, Pypard, as before, No. 7. [L. W.] 
 
 No. 150. Quarterly, i. and iv. Pypard; ii. and iii. Ar- 
 gent, three crescents sable. [L. W.] 
 
 “ Walter Hewet and Anne his wife,” adds Lee in MS. 
 
 No. 151. Quarterly, i. Leynthall; ii. Barry of six, or 
 and azure ; iii. Sable, a bend fusilly argent, [or ?] 
 iv. Argent, three crescents sable. [L. W.] 
 
 “ The full armes of Ilew'et and Leynthall, as appears in the 
 
 windows of Hampton [Court ?] com. Hereford.” Lee. 
 
 No. 152. Quarterly, i, and iv. Argent, a chevron be- 
 tween three wolves’ heads erased gules. Fox ; 
 ii. and iii. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent, on a bend 
 sable three dolphins naiant or; 2 and 3, Per pale 
 indented sable and argent, a pale in sinister . . . ? 
 [L. W.] 
 
 “ Roger Fox, whose daughter, or sister, Lenthall married, 
 
 temp. Hen. V.” Lee's MS. 
 
 No. 153 ? a bend gules cotised sable, be- 
 
 tween six billets sable. [L.] 
 
 “ Arma Will*. Lenthall ex parte matris.” Lee's MS. 
 
 No. 154. Per pale, I. Barrentyne; II. Per fesse, 
 i. Reade, [see No. 130,] ii. Alphen, [see No. 126.] 
 [L. D.] 
 
 No. 
 
 149. 
 
 Per ^ 
 pale 
 
108 
 
 APPENDIX E. 
 
 No. 155. Quarterly, i. Barrentyne ; ii. Drayton ; 
 iii. Popliam; iv. Maylyngs. [L. D.] See Nos. 34. 
 107. 128. 139, and p. 77. 
 
 No. 156. Per pale, I. Barrentyne; II. Azure, two 
 bars dansette or, a chief argent ; Stonor. [L. D.] 
 
 In the Roll of Edward III. the hearing of Stonor is thus 
 given : “ Asure, une dauncelet d’or, une cheif d’or.” See 
 “ Dorchester Abbey Memoir,” p. 127, &c. At the battle of 
 Azincourt, Lord Camoys commanded the left wing of the 
 English army, having previously to the battle commanded the 
 rear guard. (See^Sir Harris Nicolas’ “ Battle of Azincourt, 
 and Roll of Men at Arms in the English Army,” p. 113.) 
 
 No. 157. Per pale, I. Barrentyne; II. per fesse; 
 i. PopuAM, and ii. Gules, a chetTon between three 
 trefoils tailed or ; Deyne. [L. W. D.] 
 
 No. 158. Per pale, I. Barrentyne; II. per fesse; 
 
 i. Drayton, and ii. Ermine, two bars gules; a demi- 
 lion rampant in chief . . . . ? Segrave. [L. D.] 
 
 See “ Dorchester Abbey Memoir,” p. 131, for a notice of 
 
 the connection of the Drayton and Segrave families. 
 
 No. 159. Per pale, I. Barrentyne ; II. Or, a cross 
 azure; Bohan, or Rohan. [L. D.] 
 
 No. 160. Per pale, I. per fesse; i. Barrentyne; 
 
 ii. Maylyngs. II. Gules, on a chevron argent five 
 bars gemelles sable. Throgmorton. [L. D.] 
 
 By the Harleian MS. 245, a Sir T. Englejield married an 
 Elizabeth Throgmorton. 
 
 No. 161. Per pale, I. Barrentyne; II. Azure, on a 
 cinquefoil ermine, an eagle’s head erased . . . . ? [L.] 
 
 No. 162. Per pale, I. Argent, (?) two bars sable; in 
 
 sinister chief a cross crosslet ? II. Quarterly, 
 
 i. and iv. Alphen, [see No. 126,] ii. and iii. Argent, 
 a chevron engrailed between three bugle-horns sable. 
 [L., who adds in MS. “on a bason of silver.”] 
 
APPENDIX E. 
 
 109 
 
 No. 103, Or, a bend fusilly gules, a border gobonatcd 
 of argent and azure. Adkian de Bardis. [L.] 
 See Kycote Chapel, p. 150. 
 
 No, 164. Ermine, a cross fleury . . . . ? 
 
1 
 
 APPENDIX F. 
 
 THE FIGURE OF A SKELETON, &C. 
 
 Delafield (MSS. 21) states that “Tliere is on the 
 wall of the south aisle, between the first window and ! 
 
 the west eorner, the portraiture of a skeleton, to repre- 
 sent death, exactly drawn in the natural colour of dry 
 bones; the left arm leaning on a spade, and having a 
 dart in the right hand ; an hour-glass over its head, 
 and this inscription in a seeming painted table just 
 over that — 
 
 ‘ Man is as glass. Life is as water 
 Weakly walled about. 
 
 Sin brought in death. Death breaks the glass, 
 
 So runs this water out f.’” , 
 
 This figure and the inscription were expunged in his J 
 
 time. Ilis lament and observations thereon are worthy | 
 
 of being recorded, and do him honour. It is to be | 
 
 feared that he found but few to sympathize with him , 
 
 in his day. ^ 
 
 “ On a late visit to the church I found this effigy j 
 
 with the lines expunged, but, I think, with no advan- | 
 
 tage. Such solemn memorials as carry with them any | 
 
 thing of antiquit}, (as they certainly did,) and may 
 serve to inspire sober and sedate reflections, and bring 
 back to the mind a memento of mortality, looking bet- 
 ter and more becoming a Christian church than bare 
 
 p The Clepsydra would seem by this to have been in use in modem 
 times. See Bcekmann’s “ History of Inventions,” vol. i. p. 82. It was 
 not invented, or re-invented, until after 1643. This wall painting, there- 
 fore, must have been of a date subsequent to that year. 
 
 i 
 
APPENDIX F. 
 
 Ill 
 
 unpencilled walls, though made ever so white or light- 
 some with washing. I might say the same of well- 
 chosen Scripture sentences, of which there were several 
 on the walls of each of the aisles, in painted scrolls, 
 properly adorned, and at due distance. But all these 
 are now wiped out, though it be expressly required 
 (Cauon Ixxxii.) that the Ten Commandments be set 
 upon the east end of every church and chapel where 
 the people may best see and read the same, and other 
 chosen sentences written upon the walls of the said 
 churches, &c. ; and accordingly these things are often 
 made articles of enquiry at some visitations. These 
 select Scripture sentences against the walls of churches 
 have doubtless an excellent use; that at all times, when 
 the service is uot carried on, the eye may direct such 
 as can read to a uoble entertainment of their thoughts. 
 And even in time of the service, when they shall be 
 unfixed, to recall them, by a kind of gentle admonition, 
 to the business in hand. And I question uot but many 
 an one has remembered a text painted on the side of a 
 church that has forgot the text and sei’mon of the 
 preacher delivered there. In this defacing of thmgs 
 set vp by authority, churchwardens certainly take too 
 much upon themselves; and if they will not consult 
 the ordinary, they should at least take the advice of 
 their minister, before they make, or suffer to be made, 
 such alterations in their churches.” 
 
APPENDIX G. 
 
 THK CROSS-LEGGED EFFIGYi. 
 
 The figure rests on a stone slab, diminishing in 
 width from the head downwards; this formed the lid 
 of the coffin. The knight is represented in full ar- 
 mour he wears a hauberk and chausses of edge-mail, 
 with a surcoat® over all: his head defence*, or camail, 
 is of the same edge-mail, and is connected with the 
 hauberk covering the chin. Beneath the hauberk, and 
 a little above the knees, appears the haqueton, or quilted 
 under garment, intended to protect the body from the 
 pressure of the mail". The strap which is generally 
 seen encircling the head of effigies in this kind of 
 armour, and by which the knight was enabled to dis- 
 
 See plate 13 and p. 2E 
 
 f Compare the engravings of the brasses of Sir John d' Aubernoun, and 
 Sir Roger de Trumpington, &c., in the beautiful volume, lately published, 
 by the Rev. C. Boutell, on “ Monumental Brasses and Slabs.” 
 
 • Lee states that the knight's “garments” were “full of escallops of 
 gold." 
 
 ‘ “The camail [cap-mail, or head-mail] was at first of one piece with 
 that of the body. Early in Henry III.’s time we find the mail flat on 
 the top of the head, and laced or tied above the left ear. The basinet was 
 worn over the camail ; but about 1330 the form of the latter was altered; 
 it was no longer extended as a covering for the head, but vervilles, or 
 staples, were introduced on the basinet, and the camail was fastened out- 
 side by means of these and a lace. After the change the camail was 
 called barbiere, oi gorgeretle." — Stothard, “Mon. Elf.” 
 
 “ See Percy’s “ Reliques of Ancient Poetry,” Sir Cauline, line 65 — 
 
 “ His acton it was all of blacke. 
 
 His hewberke, and his sheelde,” 
 and the Glossary of Words, sub voc. .\cton. 
 
PLATE 13. 
 
 EFFIOY IN THE TOWER. C- 12i0» 
 
APPExnix n. 
 
 113 
 
 en»Ro;e hts licacl from the coif de mailles, in this in- 
 stance has an ornament attached to it, along its upper 
 edge, resembling the small balls or knobs which form 
 the distinctions in the coronets of peers at the present 
 day. Possibly they may here have signified that the 
 knight was of noble rank. The head rests on a small 
 pillow, under which is the shield: this is a very un- 
 nsual position for the shield to occupy, it being gene- 
 rally appended to the left arm. The shield itself is 
 rather larger than that termed the heater shape, and 
 slightly convex, but not so long as was usual in the 
 earlier part of the twelfth century. The right leg is 
 thrown over the left, a posture held by most antiquaries 
 to be the distinguishing mark of a Crusader or Knight 
 Templar; and the sword is drawn, (an unusual circum- 
 stance,) and, together with the scabbard, is pointed to 
 the mouth of the lion or dog supporting the feet. 
 
 It appears from Sir Samuel Meyrick, Stothard, and 
 Planche, that the earliest armour of the ring kind in 
 use in this country consisted of rings of steel sewed 
 closely and singly to a thick quilted garment, as exhi- 
 bited in the Bayeux tapestry to this succeeded, about 
 the middle of the twelfth century, armour made of rings 
 set up edgewise, still fastened singly and independent 
 of each other : this kind of armour lasted during the 
 reigns of Richard I., John, and Henry III. Early in 
 the reign of the latter monarch, in consequence of 
 the crusades which preceded, a new species of armour 
 was introduced from the east, consisting of four rings 
 connected with each other, and with a fifth in the 
 centre*; this was called chain-mail. Chain-mail and 
 
 * Delafield quotes Statius (“ Thebaid xii. 775.) for the ancient use 
 of armour of the chain kind; 
 
 “Subtemine duro 
 
 Multiplicem tenues iterant thoraca catenae.” 
 
 A good example of chain-mail is afforded by the brass of Sir John 
 
 I 
 
114 
 
 APPEIXDIX G. 
 
 edw-mail continaed to flourish together during the 
 latter half of the thirteenth and in the succeeding 
 century. Very early in Henry III.^s reign, knee- 
 caps of plate steel were introduced, and soon became 
 prevalent ; these were caUed poleyns, or genouiUures, 
 and together with elbow plates appear to be the only 
 armour of the plate kind in use iu the thirteenth cen- 
 tury Early in the fourteenth century plate armour* 
 was used still more frequently in conjunction with edge 
 and chain-mail, and finally the former prevailed en- 
 tirely over the latter, so that in the fifteenth century 
 chain and ring-mail “ altogether ceased to be in gene- 
 ral use, except as a secondary defence worn under the 
 plate, or when introduced in small portions at those 
 pouus where, in order to admit freedom of action for 
 the limbs, it was essential.” (Boutell’s “ Mon. Brasses,” 
 p. 45.) 
 
 With regard to the stone slab on which the figure 
 rests, Bloxam (“Monnm. .\rchit.’^ states that parallelo- 
 gramic slabs, or lids, to coffins, superseded the form 
 which gradually diminished from head to foot about the 
 middle of the thirteenth century. The knight resting on 
 a slab of the latter form would appear therefore to be of 
 
 d’Anbernofin, in Stoke d’Abenion eharch, Surrey. See on engneing of 
 thi*, ** the emrliai brass known to be in existence,” in Vlr. Bontell's 
 “klonnmental Braises and Slabs,” pabtisbed under the auspices of the 
 St. Alban's Architectural Society, 1S47. 
 
 * ” Cmir itmiHi wms much used in armour, but principally in the four- 
 teenth century. The corselet, or body armour, supendded to the hauberk, 
 Tas at first composed of it, and in the term emirma we bare etymological 
 record that it was ao employed. The term fimstrm also implies a defence 
 of feafker, sitting as close to the breast as a plaiMer. John of Eltham’s 
 monument in Westminster abbey is an example of plate and leather 
 armour mixed.” — Stothard, ” Moo. Efit" 
 
 a ** PImit armour appears, from MS. painticgs and moouments, not to 
 hare gained any ground until the fifth or ath year of Edward IIL” — 
 Ibid. 
 
APPENDIX (J. 
 
 115 
 
 a date anterior to 1250. The armour of the knight 
 would generally appear to be that which prevailed from 
 about 1180 to 1230 or 40. He has no poleyns, or 
 genouillieres, which were common about 1230, nor has 
 he any chain-mail, which was also about that time just 
 beginning to come into use®, and, again, his camail is 
 of one piece with the hauberk, a mark of the “ early 
 period” of this kind of armour, as remarks Stothard. 
 (See note t, p. 112.) We may therefore suppose our 
 knight to have flourished about the commencement of 
 the thirteenth century, as near as may be. 
 
 As before remarked, (p. 24,) there is some difficulty 
 in pronouncing confidently the position in the church 
 formerly occupied by the effigy. Lee’s remark (Wood’s 
 MSS. 14. D) is simply as follows : “Memorandum that 
 there lyeth in this church a man in armour of stone 
 cross-legged with his garments full of escallops of gold.” 
 The Harleian MS. (No. 6365) however is more precise 
 as to the former locality of the figure. “Against the 
 west wall of the church a Knight Templar lying, his 
 head upon his shield : his armes, (as may be conjec- 
 tured,) a cross between four scallops or. This was taken 
 and removed out of an arch in the north ile.” A. a 
 Wood again, (Wood’s MSS. E. 1,) remarks, “at the 
 lower end of the church is an armed man, cap a pe, cut 
 out from free stone, with his sword drawne, running it 
 into a lyon’s mouth, as it seems. All the armour, and 
 the rest of the stone, hath been painted over with escal- 
 lops. ’Tis supposed that upon his shield was painted a 
 a'oss between four escallops or. This statue is of a large 
 size, and supposed by some to have been taken from 
 the arch in the north isle.” 
 
 * A very early instance of chain-mail occurs in the case of the effigy 
 of Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford: he died in 1221. — See Bloxam, 
 p. 13d. 
 
 I 2 
 
116 
 
 APPENDIX G. 
 
 If any confidence, therefore, is to be placed in the 
 positive statement of the Ilarleian MS., above cited, it 
 is not unreasonable to suppose, (as before suggested, 
 p 24,) that the recessed arch in the north aisle, the 
 measurements of which nearly coincide with those of 
 the etfigy, may have been altered from its original di- 
 mensions, when the additions to the Rycote chantry were 
 made in the fifteenth century. 
 
 Now of the families connected in early times udth the 
 manors of llaseley and Rycote, we should rather expect 
 that the latter would have connection with this figure ; 
 that is, presuming the effigy, as we have supposed might 
 possibly be the case, was once the occupant of the re- 
 cessed tomb in the north, or Rycote aisle. 
 
 If this be so, we have, in the List of the Lords of Ry- 
 cote, Godfrey or Geoffrey de Mayneville. lie was a 
 Knight Templar, and his effigy still remains in the 
 Temple church, London. His son, William de May- 
 neville, who succeeded his brother Geoffrey in 1166, in 
 addition to his other warlike achievements, added a 
 pilgrimage to Jerusalem ; this would at once entitle him 
 to all the rights, priHleges, and distinctions of a Cru- 
 sader. It is probable that he lived till the close of the 
 twelfth century ; at any rate, the circumstances of the 
 slab and armour appear to agree exactly with his age. — 
 See List of the Lords of the Manor of Rycote*>. 
 
 The List of Lords of Haseley furnishes another per- 
 
 ‘ The “Gentleman’s Magazine” for August, 1840, in a notice of the 
 first edition of this memoir, states that “Earl William, dying at Rouen, 
 was buried at the abbey of Morteraer, near that city ; aud that, if he had 
 died in England, his body would have been interred at the abbey of 
 Walden in Essex, the foundation of his family.” This latter opinion does 
 not seem conclusire, for the earl's father Geoffrey was buried in the 
 Temple church, London. It was, however, not unusual to erect sepul- 
 chral memorials in more than one place, as we shall see in the case of 
 Nicholat Englefield, lord of Rycote, &c. 
 
APPENDIX G. 
 
 117 
 
 son who appears to have had some connection, if not 
 M’ith the Crusades, yet with the order of the Templars, 
 viz., Gilbert Basset, lord of Haseley, wdio succeeded in 
 1182 and died in 1203. He was a great benefactor to 
 the Templars, from which we may gather that he was 
 probably of that order himself ; if so, inasmuch as the 
 age appeal’s to coincide, the figure may be his effigy. 
 See List of the Lords of the Manor of Haseley. 
 
 Thirdly, we have Fulco de Rucot, spoken of by Lcland, 
 (see the extract, and List of the Lords of Rycote,) who 
 may possibly be the original of the cross-legged effigy, 
 for he appears to have been connected with the Knights 
 Templars as well as with Haseley. (See note, p. 139, 
 List of Lords of Rycote.) 
 
 But of the three the traditional locality of the effig}'^ 
 in olden time in the Rycote aisle, would rather compel 
 us to assign it to William de Magncville, or to Fulco de 
 Rucot; and from the known circumstance of his pil- 
 grimage, with greater probability perhaps to the former; 
 and that his family had intimate connection with llase- 
 ley church, is proved by the fact that the arms of the 
 family of !Magneville, earls of Essex, still remained in 
 Delafield’s time in the chancel windows. See List 
 of Arms. 
 
 It might have been expected that some light would 
 liave been thrown upon the history of this knightly 
 effigy, by the heraldic device said to have been once 
 visible upon the shield, viz., a cross between four escal- 
 lops. But heraldry had not as yet been moulded into a 
 complete science, nor had its rules been fixed : and coats 
 of arms had, in consequence, scarcely become family 
 distinctions so early as the first half of the thirteenth 
 century. An examination of the various Rolls of Arms, 
 &c., and other heraldic memorials of that time, will 
 shew that arms were adopted frequently at the caprice 
 
118 
 
 APPENDIX (i. 
 
 of individuals, or a change of arms would perhaps be 
 made to commemorate some remarkable event. (See 
 the notice of the Basset family ; — List of the Lords of 
 the ^lanor of Haseley.) 
 
 The nearest approach to the bearing, said to have 
 been displayed by the shield of the effigy in question, 
 is that of the Bigod family. Sir Harris Nicolas, in his 
 edition of the Roll of Arms of Henry III. and Edward 
 III.’s reigns, gives a list of coats of arms remaining, in 
 the year 1829, in Westminster abbey, in sculpture, or 
 in painting. Amongst these in the south aisle occurs 
 the bearing. Or, a cross gules. In the Roll of Henry 
 III. the same coat, witli the addition of “ les escalops 
 d’ argent en le croix” is stated to be the bearing of Rafe 
 Bigot; and again, in that of Edward II., under the 
 head of “ Oxfordshire,” occurs the name of Sire Rauf 
 Bygod, with the same coat of arms as the above Rafe. 
 Dclafield has given as one of the bearings of the Rigod 
 family, or, a cross gules ; and refers to its being in West- 
 minster Abbey, as well as occurring more than once in 
 Haseley church windows. Whether he refers to the 
 same coat as that noticed by Sir Harris Nicolas, (who 
 does not assign any name^ and on what authority he 
 attributes the name Bigod to this coat, which slightly 
 differs, it will be observed by the absence of the “ escal- 
 lops,” from the one assigned by the Rolls in Henry 
 III. and Edward II.’s time to two individuals of that 
 family, cannot be discovered. The hearing attributed 
 to the shield of the effigy, is again a slight variation 
 from that given by the Rolls to the name of Bigod. 
 The escallops are not on the cross, but the latter, accord- 
 ing to the Harleian MS. (6365) and Wood’s testimony, 
 is said to have been (to use heraldic language) between 
 the escallops. It should, however, he remembered, as 
 just remarked, that in the thirteenth century arms were 
 
APPENDIX G. 
 
 119 
 
 frequently “ differenced,” or even altered together by 
 members of the same family. 
 
 But even supposing the device on the shield of our 
 knight to have been the heraldic insigne of the house of 
 Bigod, still a difficulty remains. The date of the effigy 
 cannot be placed later than the year 1250, or 12G0, at 
 the very latest •, most probably, as we have seen, it be- 
 longs to a period considerably earlier in that century ; 
 whilst the first, (indeed the only one known,) of the 
 name of Bigod who had any connection with llascley, 
 was Roger le Bigod, justiciary of England, earl of Nor- 
 folk, and earl marshal of England, who having married 
 the heiress of Basset, (and widow of Hugo le Despencer,) 
 succeeded to the lordship of Ilaselcj', after the year 
 1271 ; and died about 1305, when the lordship passed 
 from his to other hands. (See List of Lords of the 
 Manor of Ilaseley.) 
 
 On the whole, therefore, more especially as the Bigod 
 family does not appear to have had any connection with 
 the lordship of Rijcote, to which, by the evidence before 
 us, the effigy must be referred, there seems to be no 
 reason for supposing the figure to be the monumental 
 memorial of any member of that house. 'Whilst, if the 
 conjecture be correct that William de Magneville, who 
 succeeded, as we have seen, to the lordship of llycote in 
 11G6, and made i\ pilgrimage to the Holy Laud, was the 
 individual (though buried elsewhere) designed to be 
 represented by this sepulchral effigy in the Rycote aisle 
 of Ilaseley church, at that time the only sacred edifice 
 connected with his lordship, the heraldic hearing on the 
 knight’s shield, difiering as it does from the IMagneville 
 coat, (which was formerly to be seen more than once 
 repeated in the painted windows of the church,) need 
 scarcely be considered a difficulty. The cross and escal- 
 lop shells, with the latter of which the knight’s gar- 
 
120 
 
 APPENDIX G. 
 
 ineiits” also were “full,” according to the testimonies 
 cited above, (p. 115,) were the very emblems which a 
 knight would adopt, when in his twofold character of a 
 pilgrim and a champion of the Christian faith, he would 
 naturally seek at once to exhibit his humility by the 
 ordinary emblem' of the one, and by the other'* to de- 
 clare openly his creed, and his determination to contend 
 earnestly for it against the infidel foe. 
 
 It has been commonly held that monumental eflSgies 
 of knights in armour with the legs crossed, designate 
 individuals who were either Knights Templars', or 
 
 c Mr. Delafield remarks upon these escallops with which of old the 
 surcoat of the knight was decorated: “It hath been said th&t esctJlop 
 shells, particularly the nethermost, because most hollow and capacious, 
 were often the cup and dish of pilgrims, and thereupon their arms often 
 charged with them.” See Fuller's “Church History,” vol. iii. p. 42. 
 Mr. Delaheld’s remark is also borne out by Bishop Percy, see “ Reliques 
 of Ancient Poetry,” (The Friar of Orders Grey,) 
 
 “ And how should I know your true love. 
 
 From many an other one ? 
 
 O, by his cockle hat and staff. 
 
 And by his sandal shoon.” 
 
 And the note, “ These are the distinguishing marks of a pilgrim,” &c. 
 The bishop refers to Warb. Shaksp., vol. viii. p. 224. 
 
 '' Matt. Paris, ” Hist. Angl.,” sub an. 11S8, “ Crucem animosius sus- 
 ceperunt. Provisum est inter eos, ut omnes de regno Francorum cruces 
 rubras, de terns Regis Anglorum albas, de terra comitis Flaiidrensis 
 viridcs haberent cruces.” See Stothard’s “ Mou. Eff.,” and Kempe’s 
 “ Remarks,” Introduction. 
 
 ' See Collier’s “ Eccl. Hist,” sub an 11S8 and 131 1, for the history of 
 the Knights Templars.” Circa dies istos viri quidam nobiles de equestri 
 ordine religiosi ac Deum timentes in manus Patriarchs Jerosoliinitani 
 Christi servitio sese mancipantes more canonicorum regularium in casti- 
 tate etobedientia proprisque voluutati renunciantes, perpetuo vivere sunt 
 professL Quorum primi fuerunt Hugo de Paganis, et Godoiredus de 
 Sancto iEodemaro. Qui primo adeo pauperes, licet strenui fueruut, quod 
 
APPENDIX G. 
 
 121 
 
 actual Crusaders, or at least under a vow to perform a 
 pilgrimage to Jerusalem ; the latter, in case of death 
 before it could be accomplished, being deemed a suf- 
 ficient claim to the distinction. 
 
 Bloxam (“Mon. Archit.,” p. 137) states, that this 
 notion cannot be traced to sufficient authority; he 
 says that “ the cross-legged attitude was retained for 
 more than half a century after the cessation of the 
 last crusade,” (A.D. 1270,) “though,” he adds, “it 
 may be remarked that subsequent to the thirteenth 
 century the instances of such attitudes are not very 
 numerous.” He supposes, (p. 138,) that the posture 
 was adopted at the caprice of the sculptor, for the pur- 
 pose of producing a more elegant effect by the fall of 
 the drapery on either side. 
 
 The author also of the singularly interesting and 
 beautiful work illustrative of the “ Monumental Brasses 
 and Slabs” of England, dissents from the opinion en- 
 tertained of old by all our distinguished antiquaries, 
 and considers that this “ remarkable attitude may have 
 been adopted solely as an expressive token that the 
 departed warrior, having lived a true son of the Church, 
 died professing the Christian faith.” (Boutell’s “ Mon. 
 Brasses,” p. 30.) 
 
 Mr. Addison, the author of the “ History of the 
 Knights Templars,” lately published, whilst he does 
 not allow the cross-legged effigies to be monuments of 
 
 unum solum dextrariuni (Anglice, war-horse) illi duo habuerunt : unde 
 propter primitivae paupertatis inemoriam et ad huinilitatis observantiain 
 in sigillo eoruin insculpti sunt duo unum equum equitantes.” — Matt. 
 Paris, sub an. 1188. 
 
 The order of Knights Hospitallers was instituted about 1092, and before 
 1100 they were settled in England. The Knights Templars, who date 
 from 1188, were suppressed in 1311, their possessions passing into the 
 hands of the Knights Hospitallers. See also Holinshed’s “ Chron.," sub 
 an., and Dugdale, " Mon.” (Warwickshire.) 
 
122 
 
 APPKNDIX C. 
 
 the Knights of that order, yet seems to sanction some 
 connection on the part of the individuals so represented 
 with the knightly brotherhood in question, and with 
 the defence of the cross in the east. He says, (p. 308,) 
 “The cross-legged monuments represent secular war- 
 riors, their legs crossed in token that they had assumed 
 the cross, and taken the vow to march to the defence 
 of the Christian faith in Palestine and elsewhere 
 (cap. 12) he remarks, “They appear to have been placed 
 in the Temple church, to the memory of a class of men 
 termed ‘ Associates of the Temple,’ who though not 
 actually admitted ^ to the holy vows and habits of the 
 order, were yet received into a species of spiritual con- 
 nection with the Templars.” 
 
 This opinion seems to be in accordance with that of the 
 great Camden, who thus speaks, (“ Britt.,” Middlese.x,) 
 “The Knights Templars were under a vow to protect 
 the Christian religion, and such as came in pilgrimage 
 to the sepulchre of our Lord, against the Mahometans. 
 By which means they gained great esteem and respect 
 from all hands, by the bounty of princes had large 
 possessions and much wealth, and flourished in great 
 reputation for their piety. IMany noblemen were buried 
 among* them, whose images are to be seen in the 
 Temple church, London, with their legs across, for so 
 all those in that age were buryed, who had devoted 
 themselves to the service of the holy war, or as those 
 times worded it, had taken up the cross.” 
 
 Whether by this expression of “ taking up the cross” 
 
 ' See the account of the death of Geoffrey or Godfrey de Magneville, 
 in 1144. (List of Lords of the Manor of Rycote, p. 137.) His effigy still 
 remains in the Temple church. 
 
 • If by this phrase (among) we are to understand that these “noble- 
 men” were not actually Templars, they may have been the “ associates of 
 the Temple," of whom Mr. .\ddisuu speaks. 
 
APPENDIX G. 
 
 123 
 
 Camden would imply that the warrior actually bore 
 arms, or'vowed to do so, in defence of the Christian 
 faith, in the service of his own or some other Christian 
 sovereign, seems uncertain. The last crusade, in which 
 “ Prince Edward, (afterwards Edward I.,) Henry, the 
 sou of Richard king of the Romans, the earls of War- 
 wick and Pembroke, and above a hundred and twenty 
 knights were engaged,” (Rapin. sub. an. 12G8,) took 
 place about 1270, whereas many instances occur of 
 effigies in the cross-legged attitude to a date con- 
 siderably later. 
 
 Camden himself furnishes one example, which seems 
 to connect the posture not so much with the crusades, 
 as with the order of the Templars. “ The third figure in 
 the Temple church,” he observes, “ is also cross-legged, 
 and is said by Weever to be the effigy of Robert Rosse, 
 a Templar, who died 1245. He gives the epitaph as 
 
 follows : ‘ Hie requiescit R E 
 
 quondam visitator generalis ordinis milicie Templi, in 
 Anglia, et in Francia, et in Italia.’ ” 
 
 Dugdale, again, (p. 1060, edit, of 1722,) gives us 
 two instances of Knights Templars, one of them exactly 
 similar to our Haseley knight ; and at p. 1016 two other 
 figures of Knights Templars, of the Clinton family ; the 
 latter are to be seen in Coleshill church, Warwickshire, 
 w’ithiu recessed arches. 
 
 At p. 1009, Dugdale says of John de Clinton de 
 Coleshill ; “ He bore for his arms, Argent, upon a 
 chief azure two fleur-de-lys, or, — as by his seal and 
 monument, in an arch of the wall of Coleshill church, 
 where he lieth in male, cross-legged, is yet to be seen : 
 which kind of burial was only used by those that had 
 taken upon them the cross to serve in the Holy Laud, 
 as Mr. Camden observes. — This John de Clinton was 
 
124 
 
 APPKNDIX G. 
 
 an adherent to the barons against King Henry III., 
 and was one of those that held out Kenilworth castle 
 against the king — he was alive 25 E. (1297.) 
 
 Of the five cross-legged brasses described by Mr. 
 Boutell, in his work already cited, as being the only 
 known examples of that attitude, as exhibited by that 
 kind of sepulchral memorial, two are assigned by him 
 to about the year 1320, that, namely, of Sir .... de 
 llacon in Gorleston church, Suffolk, and that of Sir 
 . . . . de Fitz Ralph in Pebmarsh church, Essex. Again, 
 we have in Westminster Abbey the cross-legged effigies 
 of Aymcr de Valence, who died in 1323, and of Prince 
 John of Eltham, who died in 1334. Of a date a few 
 years later, (1337,) is the cross-legged effigy of Sir 
 Roger de Kerdiston, at Rcepham, Norfolk ; and again 
 still later, that of Sir Oliver Ingham in Ingham church 
 in the same county, belonging to the year 1343. After 
 Edward II I. ’s reign, observes Mr. Stothard, (“Mon. 
 Eff.,”) there are found “ no monuments of that 
 fashion** 
 
 Since therefore the practice of burying in this at- 
 titude was continued for nearly one hundred years 
 after the last Crusade, we can scarcely attribute the 
 posture to the circumstance of the warriors represented 
 having been Crusaders. It would seem probable, on the 
 M'hole, that having been originated during the wars 
 
 *> Stothard was clearly of opinion that these effigies were the memorials 
 of warriors connected with the Temple. “ Knights being represented 
 cross-legged was certainly allusive to Templars, or Knights of the Holy 
 Voyage; as after Edward III.’s reign, in which the order was dissolved, 
 we find no monuments in that fashion.” — Stothard, “ Mon. Effig.” 
 
 There is, however, in the church of Waterpery, Oxon, a cross-legged 
 effigy, which is supposed to be of a date subsequent to Edward Ill ’s 
 time. See “ Guide to the Archit. Antiq. in the Neighbourhood of 
 Oxford,” p. 255. 
 
APPENDIX a. 
 
 125 
 
 against the infidels, it still prevailed as a custom, after 
 those expeditions to the Holy Land had ceased, in con- 
 nection especially with the several members (whether 
 knights or associates) of that order of knighthood, 
 which had its birth beneath the Malls of the temple 
 of Jerusalem. 
 
V' 
 
PLATE le. 
 
 -* I 
 
 BTCOTE CHAPEL 
 
 FLAN 
 
SOME ACCOUNT 
 
 OF 
 
 RYCOTE CHAPEL. 
 
 The ancient mansion house and chapel of Rycote 
 are situated about the same distance to the nortli, 
 as the village of Great Ilaseley is to the south, of 
 the old London road from Oxford by way of Tets- 
 worth. The country, however, around is more pic- 
 turesque. The undulating surface of the ground, 
 and the rich meadows, the remains of the old park 
 of Rycote, in the immediate vicinity of the chapel 
 and of the mansion, of which the former was the 
 appendage, give an air of beauty to the edifice it- 
 self perhaps in general effect superior to that of 
 which the mother church can boast, although the 
 chapel itself is not equal in architectural interest to 
 the church of Great Ilaseley. 
 
 The chapel is, however, an interesting specimen, 
 (though on a small scale,) of the style of the fifteenth 
 century, and the more so from the period of its 
 erection, within at any rate a very few years, having 
 been discovered. It will be seen below, (see List 
 of Lords of the Manor of Rycote, p. 142,'i that the 
 
128 
 
 SOMK ACCOUNT OF RYCOTE CHAPEL. 
 
 joint founders of the cliapel both died in 1400. 
 We may therefore safely refer the edifice to the few 
 years before, or next succeeding to, that date". 
 
 The plan is very simjde, — a parallelogram, with 
 a tower at the west end, rather less in diameter 
 than the width of the chapel. 
 
 To take a survey first of the exterior; the tower, 
 the leading feature of the edifice, is of three stages, 
 and of the proportions usual in the fifteenth century, 
 the play of its outline against the dark foliage be- 
 hind being very pleasing. 
 
 The west doorway of the chapel is in the lowest 
 stage of the tower, with a straight arched window 
 of three lights immediately above within the same 
 com[)artment. The effect of the doorway is good, 
 the hollows are deep, and the mouldings bold for 
 the style. The dripstone terminates in shields. 
 
 In the second stage of the tower is a niche with 
 a canopy over it, with a pyramidal roof finish above. 
 'I'he pedestal still remains, but there are no traces 
 of a statue. 
 
 The third and highest stage contains a window 
 of two lights, of the same style with that in the 
 lowest compartment. The buttresses of the tower 
 are set on diagonally. They are plain, of two 
 stages, and die into the wall above. At the south- 
 east angle of the tower is a staircase turret, and the 
 
 * See note z, p. 142. 
 
SOME ACCOUNT OF RYCOTE CHAPEL. 
 
 129 
 
 tower itself is finished above with a string-course 
 and eastellated battlement, with projecting gur- 
 goyles. The buttresses of the body of the chapel 
 are massive, with heavy pinnacles, indeed far more 
 so than the outward thrust of a much heavier roof 
 woidd require. The pinnacles were evidently set 
 on for mere ornament, and not in accordance with 
 their original intention, as exhibited in the vaulted 
 roofs of the two preceding centuries, which required 
 buttresses of considerable solidity, together with the 
 additional vertical pressiu’e of a heavy pinnacle, to 
 resist the transverse strain. 
 
 The two buttresses at the east end are, in corre- 
 spondence with those of the tower, set on diagonally ; 
 and are finished above with figures of considerable 
 size of talbots, or greyhounds, sejant, (to use heraldic 
 language,) instead of pinnacles. These very pro- 
 bably were additions, or substitutions of later date 
 than the fifteenth centiu-y**. 
 
 The doorway at the western end of the north side 
 of the chapel, now blocked up, is constructed with 
 a four-centred arch, and has a square label, or drip- 
 stone over it, terminating in heads, and ornamented 
 
 ** In a communication kindly made to the writer of these 
 remarks by the Hon. and Rev. F. Bertie, rector of Albury, it 
 is stated that “ the supporters of Lord Williams of Thame 
 were two greyhounds, but those on Rycote chapel are sup- 
 posed to be the Tudors’ ; Edward the Sixth having granted 
 certain rights and privileges to Lord A\ illiams.” See List of 
 Lords of the Manor of Rycote, p. 144. 
 
130 
 
 SOME ACCOUNT OF RYCOTE CHAPEL. 
 
 with three sliiekls, but with no heraldic device now 
 visible. The spandi’els of the doorway, or the space 
 between the square label and the arch, are orna- 
 mented with quatrefoils and a rose in the centre of 
 each. The addition of the rose may have been an 
 expression of the leaning of the founder, or the 
 architect, to one or the other side of the cause then 
 pending between the rival houses of York and Lan- 
 caster, the year succeeding the death of the founders 
 having witnessed the triumph of the former. The 
 door itself, which is strengthened with substantial 
 nail-heads and an ancient form of scutcheon, seems 
 to be the original one. 
 
 Towards the eastern end of the north side is 
 another doorway, (the priest’s door,) leading im- 
 mediately to the altar, &c. This is of smaller di- 
 mensions, with a narrow arch ; with ornaments, 
 however, of the same character with those of the 
 one just described. 
 
 On the south side of the chapel is a third door- 
 way, now blocked up, of the same character with 
 the first-mentioned doorway as to its arch, but with 
 no label, and generally of plainer features. 
 
 The side windows, uniform with each other, are 
 of two lights ; each division cinquefoiled in the head 
 with a slight perforation between. The arches of 
 these windows are straight-sided, with labels above, 
 and shields at the termination of each. The cases 
 are not frequent in which the straight-sided arch is 
 
SOME ACCOUNT OF RYCOTE CHAPEL. 
 
 131 
 
 ap])liecl to window:^ of so late a date as those of this 
 chapel'. It occurs in the main pier arches of the 
 north transept of Hereford cathedral, which dates 
 from the end of the hA'elfth or early in the thirteenth 
 century ; and still earlier, during the Saxon and 
 early Norman period, doors and windoics are not 
 unfrequently found with this peculiarity. The four- 
 centred, or so called Tudor arch, from which the 
 form appears, in buildings of the fifteenth centur}% 
 to have been a deviation, was introduced towards 
 the close of the fourteenth, but was not generally 
 adopted until about the middle of the fifteenth cen- 
 tury. The arch became gradually more and more 
 depressed, but still exhibiting its junction with the 
 impost curved more or less, thus altogether forming 
 a complex arch constructed from four centres. In 
 this instance of Rycote chapel, however, the arch 
 consists of two straight sides, forming an obtuse 
 angle at the impost, with no curve whatever. 
 
 The great east window is a very good specimen 
 of the Perpendicular style. The arch is very obtuse, 
 being nearly circular in appearance, with a very 
 slight point at the vertex. The window consists of 
 five lights, cinquefoiled in the head ; and each divi- 
 sion is again subdivided into two subordinate lights 
 for about one-third of its entire length, commencing 
 from the upper part ; these subdivisions being tre- 
 
 ' Compare a window of Winchester cathedral, plate 65, 
 second edition of “ Glossary of Archit.’’ 
 
132 
 
 SOME ACCOUNT OF RYCOTE CHAPEL. 
 
 i 
 
 foiled in tlie head, and at their base. The effect 
 produced by the.sc lines of junction at the bases of 
 these subdivisions, running the eye horizontally, is j 
 
 that of a transom, of which this arrangement of the 
 window mullions may perhaps have suggested the 
 first idea. 
 
 Over the east window is a triangidar opening, to i 
 
 admit the air into the space between the ceiling and * 
 
 the roof, very elegant in its proportions ; and at the 
 point of the gable is a cross, (a species of cross- 
 flory,) very closely resembling that on the eastcni j 
 
 gable of Merton college chapel. 
 
 The interior of the chapel is in a sad state of de- 
 cay, and will ere long, unless cleansed out and 
 repaired in some degree at least, communicate the 
 seeds of destruction to the more solid parts of the 
 building. 
 
 Of the architectural features within, the arch at 
 the west end under the tower is the most striking, 
 being lofty and finely proportioned. The capitals 
 are bell-shaped, with octagonal abaci ; the whole 
 being in character earlier than the date of its actual | 
 
 erection. The piscina is square-headed, with a tre- ^ 
 
 foiled arch beneath. The font is of the same age | 
 
 with the chapel, and has a plain ogee-arched canopy 
 of wood. 
 
 The timber ceiling, or interior of the roof, which 
 is original, is vaidted in the barrel fashion. The 
 beams project as ribs or groins, the portions between 
 
 * 
 
 I 
 
 i 
 
SOME ACCOUNT OK UYCOTE ClIArEL. 
 
 133 
 
 being painted to represent the sky, witli stars dis- 
 played at intervals. The wood-work of the altar, 
 &c., is of later date than the chapel, being of the 
 renaissance, or revived classic style. The open scats, 
 many of which remain, appear however to be quite 
 as old as the chapel ; they agree in their general 
 character with those of Ilaseley church. 
 
 Between the portion of the chapel which may be 
 considered as the chancel, and the general assem- 
 blage of open seats, are two large enclosed pews, 
 one on either side. The one on the north side has 
 an upper story, and is a spacious and extremely 
 handsome specimen of that peculiar style. The 
 ornamental wood-work consists of arabesque and 
 Italian carvings, and pierced lattice or trellis work, 
 with arcades of wood running round, and paintings 
 in medallions interspersed. The whole is a good 
 example of the gaudy decoration of the renaissance 
 period, and apparently, from the character of the 
 ornaments, may be assigned to about the close of 
 the sixteenth, or the beginning of the seventeenth 
 century. 
 
 The south pew is less handsome than its rival, 
 but generally of the same style. It has no upper 
 story, but is terminated above by a cupola of the 
 ogee form, with crockets running up the curve from 
 each of the four angles. The cupola is finished 
 above with a figure of the Virgin and Child. These 
 
134 
 
 SOME ACCOUNT OF RYCOTE CHAPEL. 
 
 latter features would seem to imply an earlier date 
 than that of the larger pew, which has no charac- 
 teristics of the Gothic style about it. 
 
 Of the two pews the latter appears, from its ear- 
 lier character, to be the one which may have been 
 erected for, or at least used by, the Princess Eliza- 
 beth, when detained a prisoner at llycote during 
 the reign of her sister. (See List of Lords of the 
 ]\Ianor, p. 144.) The figure surmounting the cupola 
 may possibly have been expressly added, as one 
 amongst other tests of the princess’s acquiescence, 
 at that time, in the tenets of the Roman Catholics. 
 
 The pulpit is apparently of the same date with 
 the larger pew. It has a tester head of pleasing 
 proportions. 
 
 There are still some remains of the banners which 
 formerly projected from the walls ; two or three 
 spears still remaining in their original position, with 
 fragments depending. 
 
 Against the south wall near the altar is a large 
 and handsome mural monument of marble, to James 
 Bertie, carl of Abingdon and lord of Rycote, who 
 died May 25, 1G99, though the monument was 
 not erected, as would seem by its date, until 17G7. 
 (For the arms on the monument, see List of Arms, 
 p. 154.) 
 
 The arms of the Quatremain and Gresley fami- 
 lies (the latter connected by marriage with the 
 
SOME ACCOUNT OF RYCOTE CHAPEL. 
 
 135 
 
 former, and with i\\Q Fuwler family) arc still (1848) 
 to be made out, though indistinctly, on the shields 
 which form the termination of the west doorway 
 dripstone. 
 
APPENDIX II. 
 
 LIST OF LORDS OF THE MANOR OF RYCOTE. 
 
 EXTRACTED PRINCIPALLY FROM DELAFIELD'S MS., AND CONFIRMED BY 
 REFERENCES TO OTHER SOURCES. 
 
 Rycote was originally of military tenure, in which 
 condition and dignity it was successively held by the 
 Mandevilles, (de Magnavilla,) Englefields, Quatremains, 
 Fouders, John Lord Williams of Thame, and Sir Henry 
 Norris, in whose person it was erected into a barony 
 by Queen Elizabeth.” 
 
 Geoffrey'^, or Godfrey de Magnavilla, came over 
 with William the Conqueror. He was created earl of 
 Essex, to which earldom belonged the bearing of the 
 royal standard, and had Rycote and other manors given 
 to him. With his wife, Athelarda, he was buried in 
 Westminster abbey, but the exact spot is not known. 
 
 William de Magnaville®, his son, succeeded. He 
 founded a monastery of Black Canons at Stonely in 
 Huntingdonshire. After him, 
 
 Geoffrey, or Godfrey de M , his son. 
 
 “The Empress Maud now [A.D. 1141] sole sovereign 
 of England, under her broad seal, [in which she still 
 retained the title ‘ Romanorum Regina,’‘\ granted the 
 custody of the Tower of London to this Geoffrey de 
 and his heirs, covenanting with him therein 
 
 •* Kennett’s “ Parochial Antiq.,” vol. i. p. 92 ; Stow’s “ Annals,’’ p. 
 103 ; Stow's “ Survey,” p. 289 ; Dugdale’s “ Mon.,” vol. i. p. 4.5. 
 
 ' Speed, 1059. 
 
APPENDIX II. 
 
 137 
 
 that she would not make peace with the citizens of 
 Loudon without the said Geoffrey’s consent He 
 was afterwards (in 1143) apprehended in the king’s 
 court at St. Alban’s, and was not released until he had 
 surrendered both the Tower of London and “ other his 
 castclls” to the king (Stephen.) Gervase says “the 
 king did it out of necessity ; for if he had not secured 
 him, he would have been deprived by him of his king- 
 dom®.” This Geoffrey was the founder of the monas- 
 tery of Walden Parva in Essex. He’’ was eventually 
 wounded at the siege of Burwell castle, Cambridge- 
 shire, and died soon after, (A.D. 1144,) being at that 
 time excommunicated : but previous to his death cer- 
 tain Knights Templars came by, who laid upon him the 
 habit of their religious profession, signed with a red 
 cross ; and afterwards enclosing him in lead, hung him 
 upon a tree in the orchard of the Old Temple, London, 
 for they durst not bury him*. To him succeeded his 
 son, 
 
 Geoffrey, who dying about 1166, was buried in 
 "Westminster abbey, near his grandfather. His bro- 
 ther, 
 
 William de M , succeeded, who, “in addition 
 
 to his title of earl oj Essex, was by his wife'* also earl of 
 
 ' Speed's “Hist.,” p. 476; Stow’s “ An.,” p. 146; Dugdale, “Mon.,” 
 vol. i. p. 55. 
 
 » Rapin’s “ Hist,,” sub an. 
 
 h Camden, Essex; Weever, “ Fun. Mon.,” p. 626. 
 
 * His cross-legged effigy still remains in the Temple church. His 
 armour is of edge mail. See Addison’s “ History of the Knights Tem- 
 plars,” cap. 12. 
 
 William de Magnaville espoused 7/adeu»jsa, daughter of William earl 
 of Albemarle, in whose right the title of Albemarle became vested in him- 
 self. (Rapin, sub an. 1180.) He also carried the crown immediately 
 before King Richard I. at his coronation in 1189. (See an interesting 
 account of the ceremonial in Rapin, sub an.) 
 
138 
 
 APPENDIX H. 
 
 Albemarle," observes Camden. lie' performed a pil- 
 grimage to Jerusalem, and was also general to King 
 Henry II. against the French king in Normandy. 
 After a fruitless interview between Henry II. and 
 Lewis VI. between Gisors and Trye, a battle ensued, 
 in whicb Ingeramus, the castellan of Trye, was taken 
 prisoner by this Wm. de Magnaville®. 
 
 Wm. de Magnanlle was succeeded by his paternal 
 aunt, Beatrix de Say, whose daughter Beatrix married 
 Geoffrey Petri-filius, or Fitz Piers. This Geoffrey Fitz 
 Piers “ was girt with the sword of the earldom of Essex 
 by King John at his coronation, having been previously 
 advanced to the high estate of Justicer of England by 
 King Richard I., which office he executed with great 
 commendation, preserving by his wisdom the realm 
 
 ' This William de Magnaville, lord of Rycote, who seems to have lived 
 till the end of the twelfth century, may possibly be the Knight Templar 
 or Crusader whose effigy is the subject of enquiry. See p. 112, and plate 
 12 . 
 
 ■" Hoveden, p. 306, edit. 1596. “ Convenerunt ergo ad ultiinum inter 
 
 Gisortium et Trie, Lodowicus Rex Francorum, cum Arcbiepiscopis, Epi- 
 scopis, Comitibus, ct Baronibus regni sui, et Henricus Rex Anglise pater, 
 cum Arch. Episc. Comit. et Bar. terrae suae, et habitum est ibi colloquium 
 de pace facienda inter ipsum et filios suos, 7® Kal. Oct. &c. &c. Sed 
 non fuit de consilio Regis Franciae, ut filii regis hanc pacem cum patre 
 suo facerent. In eodem autem colloquio Robertus Comes Leicestrix 
 multa convicia et opprobria dixit regi Anglix palri, et apposuit manum 
 gladio, ut percuteret regem, sed prohibitum est ei a circiimstantibus, et in 
 his iinitum est colloquium. In crastino autem colloquii niilites regis 
 Franeix inierunt congressum cum militibus regis Anglix inter Curteles 
 et Gisors : in quo conflictii, Ingeramus, Castellanus de True, captus est a 
 Comite Willelmo de Mandeville, et traditus est regi palri." The inde- 
 pendence of the barons of those times is well exhibited by the earl of 
 Leicester’s behaviour at the council, and it is curious to observe that the 
 title Rex appears to have been bestowed upon the heir apparent even in 
 his father’s life-lime. The expressions “ Rex pater," and “ Rex filius," 
 constantly occur in the annalists. Collier (“Eccl. Hist.,” vol. ii. p. 320) 
 mentions that “ Engelram de Trie tilted with the Chancellor of England, 
 ( Becket,) afterwards archbishop of Canterbury !” See also ” Eccl. Hist,” 
 vol. ii. p. 380. 
 
APPENDIX II. 
 
 ISD 
 
 from that confusion which it after fell into by King 
 John’s unadvised carriage".” His son, 
 
 Geoffrey" (Fitz Piers) de Magnaville sueeeeded, 
 in 1213, as earl of Essex, &c., and lord of llyeote. He 
 took the barons’ side against King John, and was their 
 leader, with Robert Fitz Walter and the earl of Gloster, 
 when they advaneed to aid the Londoners. He mar- 
 ried Isabel, the divoreed wife of King John, and heiress 
 of William, earl of Gloster, and died young of a wound 
 received at a tournament in 1215, and was buried in 
 the ehureh of the priory of the Holy Trinity near Aid- 
 gate, London, being sueeeeded by his brother Wil- 
 liam p, who also died young in 1228. 
 
 “ Here (says Dclafield) is a ehasm of about 150 years, 
 which all my search hath not enabled me to supply.” 
 Perhaps Fulco de Ricot alluded to by Leland, (see 
 the extraet,) may come in here as lord of the manor of 
 Rycote. In the Hundred Rolls, under the head of 
 Magna Rucot, oeeurs the following ; — “ Dominus Fulco 
 
 n Dugdale, vol. i. p. 55; Camden, Essex ; Collier, “Eccl. Hist.,” vol. 
 ii. p. 411. 
 
 0 Speed, pp. 30, 372 ; Stow’s “ Survey,” p. 143. 
 f Stow’s “Annals,” p. 180. 
 
 s “ Fulco de Ricote, temp. Henry III.” See “Testa de Nevil.” In 
 the ledger book of the Knights Templars’ preeeptory at Sandford, pre- 
 served in the Bodleian Library, written about Edward I.’s time, is a 
 charter of Fulco de Ruicote respecting land in “ Hasele.” See “ Guide to 
 ArchiL Ant. near Oxford,” pp. 357, 361. It is possible that the cross- 
 legged effigy (see Appendix G) may be the monumental memorial of 
 this Fulco de Ricot, who thus appears as well to have been connected with 
 the Knights Templars as with Haseley. The Harleian MS., No. 4031, 
 folio 105, gives the following links in the Ricot pedigree; — John Ricot 
 died, leaving an only child, Catharine, who, marrying Nicholas Clarke, 
 gave her own name to her husband. This Nicholas Ricote was, by his 
 wife Catharine, the father of Johanna Ricote, who married Nicholas 
 Englefield, the father of the two co heiresses, Sibill and Cicely. (See the 
 following note.) The lordship of Ricote then passed from the Ricot 
 family to the Englefields by inheritance. 
 
140 
 
 AI’I'ENDIX H. 
 
 de Rucot tenet liercditar’ totam villain de Rucot in 
 capite de dno Edm. Com’. Cornub’. per feod’ unius 
 militis, et est de honore Wallingford praedicta villa, et 
 continet in se quinque liydas terre eum p’tin’ et debet 
 scutagium seeundura positionem seuti.” 
 
 Tbe lordship of Rycote being vested in Johanna, the 
 heiress of Nieholas Rieote, passed by marriage into the 
 hands of the Englekields; (see note q, p. 139.) 
 
 “The ne.\t possessor of Rycote, as I can recover,” 
 observes Delafield, “is Nicholas ExcLEFiELOb a 
 family whicb, if authority be true", was seated at En- 
 glefield, or Inglefield, [in Theale hundred, deanery 
 of Reading, Berkshire,] more than 200 years before 
 the Conquest.” (lie succeeded to the lordship by his 
 marriage with Johanna, the heiress of Rieote, (see 
 note q, p. 139,) which Delafield was not aware of.) 
 “ This Nicholas,” Delafield remarks, was “ steward and 
 comptroller of the king’s household to Richard 1I.‘” 
 
 In a MS. (Ilarleian MSS., No. 245) by William Smith, Rouge 
 Dragon, dated 1600, and under the authority of Glover, Somerset Herald, 
 a pedigree of Englefield is given, in which the father of the two co- 
 heiresses Sibetl (Quatremain) and Cicely (Fowler) is stated to be Sir 
 John Englefield. The MS. however adds, “ alibi dicitur quod quidam 
 Nicholaiis Englefield clcricus del Grenecloth in domo Regis Rici. II. 
 reliquit Sibillam uxorem Quatremayne, et Ceciliam uxorem Will. 
 Fowler.” The Ilarleian MS., No. 'H)3I, again, preserves a copy of an 
 indenture (scriptum ind;nlatum) with regard to the disposal of Bicote 
 manor, &c., in favour of Richard Quatremain and Sibilla his wife, “ uni 
 filiarum et hEeredum Nicholai Englefield,” with divers remainders to the 
 Fowlers, Boiillers, &c. This indenture is dated 32” Henry VI., or A. D. 
 1454. (See the preceding note.) This same MS. gives a pedigree of 
 Englefield for several generations. 
 
 * Collins’s “ Baron.,” vol. i. p. 391. Glover’s MS. also, No. 245 of 
 the Ilarleian MSS., speaks of the “ Englejields’ chauiitrie” in the year 
 A. D. 809, “anno Egberti 2“.” 
 
 • See the inscription on his irn« monument, p. 81. The term “ scr- 
 viens” is considered to imply that he was “ Serjeant of the counting- 
 house,” by the “ Gentleman’s Magazine” for August, 1840. Lee, how- 
 ever, and ll'eever, (“ Fun. .Mon.,” p. 660,) agree with .Mr. Delafield’s ex- 
 
APPENDIX H. 
 
 141 
 
 It is uncertain, be continues, whether he was buried 
 in Ilaseley church, for Weever gives his epitaph as 
 being in Ashdown church, Essex, with his titles in 
 part, and the same date as that at Ilaseley : perhaps 
 his remains were divided, not uncommon in those 
 days, and buried in two places. He quotes, in refer- 
 ence to this eustom. Martial, v. — ‘‘jacere, lino non 
 poteret magna ruina loco and Ovid, “ Met.” ii. — “ Et 
 scEpe in tumulis sine corpore nomina legi and ibid — 
 “Inane sepulo'um Conslituit also Virg. vi. — 
 
 “ Tumulum RIkeIceo in littore inanem Constitui.” 
 
 This Nieholas, he concludes, left two daughters, co- 
 heiresses, who married into the families of Quatremain 
 and Fowler, of whom the Quatremains immediately, 
 and the Fowlers sometime after, became possessors of 
 Ilycote". 
 
 Of the Quatremains, Camden (Oxfordshire) remarks, 
 — “ Quatremanni superiori seculo magni erant in hoc 
 tractu (Haseley and Kycote) nomiuis.” 
 
 Richard Quatremain was sheriff of Berkshire in 1434, 
 and about the same time Sir Richard Q. was knight of 
 Oxfordshire in the parliament of 12 Henry VI. He 
 married Joan, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas 
 Grey'’, of Rotherfield Grey, and is buried in Thame 
 church. His daughter aud heiress Mathildis, or Maud, 
 married Thomas de Littleton, lord of Frankley in Wor- 
 cestershire, and had one only daughter, who married 
 Thomas Westcote, but her children bore her name. Sir 
 Thomas Littleton, the famous lawyer, was her son*. 
 
 planation of the term. The former says distinctly in MS. (D. 14, Wood’s 
 MSS., Ashmolean Museum) “ sometime controller of the house to kynge 
 llichard.” See note r above. 
 
 “ See note r, p. 140. 
 
 ’’ See List of Anns formerly in Haseley church, and also the Rycote 
 List, pp. 92, and 154. 
 
 * See Collins’s “ Peerage,” vol. viii. p. 321, where it is said, “ He wrote 
 
142 
 
 APPENDIX H. 
 
 In 1452 a Richard Quatermainy was liigh sheriff of 
 Oxfordshire and Berkshire. He married “ Sibill Engle- 
 field” (see p. 140,) and with her is buried in Thame 
 church. They both died in 1460*. (Mr. Delafield was 
 not aware of the fact wdiich the Ilarleian MS. has 
 brought to light, that they were the founders of Rycote 
 chapel^. Leland also intimates as much, though he 
 speaks of the foundation having ‘ endid yn Edward the 
 4 tyme.' (See the extract, p. 71.) This completion of 
 the chapel may have been the work of Adrian de Bar- 
 dis, who is styled by Wood (MS. E. i.) erroneously the 
 founder.) 
 
 his famous ‘ Treatise on Tenures’ when he was a judge, after the fourteenth 
 year of King Edward IV. ; Lord Coke thinks not long before his death, 
 for it wanted his last hand ; notwithstanding he makes this great enco- 
 mium upon it, ‘ that it is the ornament of the common law, and the most per- 
 fect and absolute work that ever was wrote in any human science.’ ” The 
 picture of the judge (Littleton) now in the Inner Temple hall, was painted 
 by Cornelius Jansen, from a print engraved probably from a glass paint- 
 ing in Frankley church. See Phillimore’s “ Memoirs of Lord Lyttleton,” 
 vol. i. p. 4, and Winston’s “ Glass Painting,” vol. i. p. 366. 
 
 r See Coles’s MSS., vol. xxvi. p. 309, (British Museum,) for an extract 
 from the will of “ Richard Quatermayns, lord of RicotL” 
 
 ' See Harleian MS., 245. “ In capella de Ricott in coin Oxon’ ima- 
 
 gines Ric. Quatermayns et Sibillae uxoris in fenestra depictae.” A rude 
 sketch is given of a male figure in armour, tabard, and aiglettes ; with 
 arms — viz.. Gules, a fesse azure, (argent? or false heraldry,) between 
 four hands couped or j Quatremain ; — and of a female figure with mantle 
 displaying the Quatremain arms, but on her kirtle her own coat, viz., 
 Barry of six, gules and argent ; a bend azure ; on a chief or a lion passant 
 of the third; Englejield. The male with his left hand, and the female 
 with both of hers, support the figure of a church or chapel ; and under- 
 neath are the words, “ Orate pro animabus Rid Quatermayns, Ar. et 
 Sibillae uxor’ ejus fundator’ istius capellae.” The first mention of Rycote 
 in the Registers occurs under the year 1468, which would seem to imply 
 that the chapel was built qfter the death of the founders, whom the 
 painted window, above mentioned, was intended to commemorate. See 
 List of Rectors, sub an. 1468. It was not uncommon to represent 
 founders with a model of the church or college of their foundation in their 
 hands. See Boutell's ” Mon. Brasses,” p. 53, the brass of Sir John de 
 Cobiiam. Also the Oxford “Manual” of Mon. Brasses, p. 64. 
 
APPENDIX H. 
 
 143 
 
 The Foiolers were the next lords of Rycote, some of 
 whom, says Delafield, lie buried at the eastern end of 
 the north (Rycote) aisle, as was heretofore to be seen 
 by some brass plates. (See List of Monuments, No. 
 21, and Leland, p. 71.) Sir Richard Fowler, Knight 
 of the Bath, was so created at the marriage of 
 Prince Arthur, eldest son of King Henry YIL, with 
 Katharine of Spain. Sir R. F. died in 1528. His wife 
 Dame Julian (see List of Monuments, No. 21) was 
 buried at the east end of the north aisle. By the 
 extract from Leland (see p. 71) it appears that the 
 Fowlers succeeded to the lordship, &c., of Ricote by 
 inheritance from the Quatermain family ; that they 
 sold all their lands, and that Sir John Heron, “trea- 
 sorer of the chaumbre to Henry vij and the viij, boute 
 the reversion of the lordship of Ricote, and Giles his 
 Sunne possessid it awhile.” The latter sold Ricote to 
 “ Sir John Willyams,” afterwards Lord Williams of 
 Thame. 
 
 Of the Herons®, remarks Delafield, “I can find 
 nothing but their name, John, Lord Williams of Thame, 
 having acquired the lordship by purchase from the 
 Fowlers and Herons, as is intimated by Camden. In 
 1536 was erected by King Henry VIII. the court of 
 the Augmentations and of the revenues of the King’s 
 Highnesse’s crowne.” Of this court* ** Sir John Wil- 
 
 * This family was “ one of the most ancient, and long of great con- 
 sideration, in Northumberland.” The ancient ballad of Chevy Chase, line 
 114, states that 
 
 “ Thear was slayne with the lord Perse 
 Sir John of Agerstone, 
 
 Sir Roger the hinde Hartly, 
 
 Sir AVyllyam the bolde Hearone." 
 
 See Percy’s “ Reliques of Ancient Poetry.” 
 
 " Speed, 1073 ; and Stevens, Ap., p. 17. 
 
141 
 
 APPENDIX H. 
 
 Hams, Kt., was treasurer : and as a share of the plun- 
 der, he had the priory of nuns dedicated to St. Mary 
 at Studley, Oxon, given to him. On !^^ay 10, 1545, 
 Sir John Williams, with John D’Oily, gent., and 
 others, was appointed commissioner for the suppress- 
 ing St. Frides wide’s college, now Christ Church, in 
 Oxford®, and the cathedral church of Osney, by re- 
 ceiving the surrender of them into the king's hands. 
 
 Sir John Williams'* was amongst the foremost in 
 supporting Queen Mary, for which, in April, 1553, he 
 was honoured with the title of Lord Williams of Thame. 
 The next year, with Sir Henry Bedingfield, he was 
 appointed keeper® of the Princess, afterwards Queen, 
 Elizabeth; and in May that year gave her a noble 
 entertainment at his house at llycote, and was much 
 more gentle to his charge than Sir Henry B., whom 
 Queen Elizabeth afterwards used to call her gaoler. 
 Lord Williams^ was the bearer of a request to Queen 
 Mary from Bishop Ridley, before his martyrdom, re- 
 garding the continuance of the leases he had made to 
 his poor tenants. He married first, Elizabeth, daugh- 
 ter and co-heiress of Thomas Bledlow, Esq., and widow 
 of Andrew Edmonds, Esq., of Crossing Temple, Essex ; 
 and secondly, Margery, daughter of Baron Wentworth ; 
 and died 14th October, 1559, and is buried at Thame. 
 By his first wife he had two daughters, co-heiresses, 
 !Margcry or Margaret, and Mabel ; the former was 
 
 ' AylifTe’s “State of Oxford,” vol. L p. 403. 
 
 •* Ileylin's “ Hist. Reform.,” pp. 21 — 38. 
 
 ® Stow, 623. It seems not improbable that the large enclosed pew on 
 the south side of llycote chapel may have been erected for the accommo- 
 dation of the princess, when detained at Kycote. See description of the 
 chapel, p. 133. 
 
 ' Fuller’s “ Worthies.” 
 
APPENDIX II. 
 
 145 
 
 married (as below) to Sir Henry Norris; the latter to 
 Sir Richard Wenman. 
 
 Sir Henry Norris^, in right of his wife Margaret, next 
 became lord of Rycote. Of him Camden remarks 
 (Oxfordshire) that he “ was as well eminent for his 
 honourable descent, (being descended from the Lovels, 
 who were allied to most of the great families in Eng- 
 land,) as more especially for his stout and martial sons, 
 whose valour and conduct are sufficiently known in 
 Holland, Portugal, Bretagne, and Ireland.^’ Sir Henry 
 Norris was created by Queen Elizabeth Baron Norris 
 of Rycote, May 8, 1572. His wife (Margaret Williams) 
 was of a “ very dark color or black complexion,” so 
 that Queen Elizabeth, with whom her husband was in 
 high favour, used to write to her, “^ly own crow;” — 
 ending her letters with “your gracious and lovinge 
 Souveraign, E. R.” (There is a very handsome monu- 
 ment — for its style — in Westminster abbey to this 
 Henry the first Lord Norreys, supported by his six 
 sons kneeling;) “all martial men (says Fuller) of high 
 spirit, though their father was of a mild and sweet 
 disposition :” an additional testimony to Camden’s en- 
 comium cited above. “Although his monument was 
 placed in Westminster abbey, the first Lord Norreys 
 was interred in Rycote chapel. His grandson, Francis, 
 eventually succeeded as Lord Norreys, and was sum- 
 moned to parliament in the 43rd year of Elizabeth, 
 and further enriched by the acquisition of his uncle’s 
 vast estates, in 1603. At the accession of King James, 
 having attained the age of 29, he was one of the noble- 
 men selected to attend the queen in her journey from 
 Scotland, and on the creation of Prince Charles as 
 
 * See “ Guide,” &c., p. 217, notice of Beckley. 
 
 L 
 
14G 
 
 APPENDIX II. 
 
 Prince of Wales, made Knight of the Bath. He ap- 
 pears to have been chiefly remarkable for his extreme 
 irritability, insomuch that a great portion of his life 
 seems to have been spent in quarrels. In IGIO he 
 fought a duel with Peregrine Willoughby, whom he 
 dangerously wounded in the shoulder, and afterwards 
 cruelly murdered one of the servants, w'ho ventured to 
 interpose on behalf of his master. But the exertions 
 of his friends, combined with his own interest at court, 
 not only procured his pardon, but obtained for him 
 additional honours; for on the 18th of June, 18 James 
 I., he was advanced to the dignity of Viscount Thame, 
 and Earl of Berkshire. Neglecting, however, to guard 
 against the violence of his temper, he was precipitated 
 into other improprieties, which ultimately proved fatal. 
 As he attended his parliamentary duty in the following 
 February, inadvertently standing in a narrow part of 
 the entrance to the House of Lords, giving some direc- 
 tions to a servant, he was accidentally jostled by the 
 Lord Scrope who was passing by ; tins so enraged him, 
 that though the house was sitting and the sovereign 
 present, he rudely thrust before that nobleman, and 
 interrupted the proceedings, in consequence of which 
 he was committed to the Fleet prison. This indignity, 
 combined with other supposed injuries, made such a 
 deep impression on his haughty spirit, that he mortally 
 wounded himself in the face and neck with a cross-bow 
 at his house at Ricott, Jan. 28, 1G21, and died soon 
 after.” By marriage with Elizabeth, daughter and 
 heiress of Francis, Lord Norreys and carl of Berkshire, 
 Edward Wrmj, Esq.*', (see List of Arras,) became lord of 
 
 " Ilaseley parish register states that “ Robert Buley, alias Scott, servant 
 unto the right worshipful Mr. Wray, of Ricott, was buried the last day of 
 
APVIONOIX H. 
 
 U7 
 
 Rycote. He was groom of the bedchamber to King 
 James I. (Charles I.?) and left one only daughter, 
 Bndffet, in right of her mother. Lady Norreys. This 
 lady married first, Edward Sackville, Esq. ; and se- 
 condly, Montague Bertie, earl of Lindsey, who died in 
 1666. “ The Berties,” observes Delafield, “are of Saxon 
 extraction, being derived from Leopold de Bertie, con- 
 stable of Dover castle in King Ethelred’s reign, c. A.D. 
 980.” The son of the above Montague Bertie, earl of 
 Lindsey, and of Bridget, Lady Norreys of Rycote, was 
 James Bertie^, earl of Abingdon, who died in 1699. 
 He married Eleanor, daughter of Sir Henry Lee^, and 
 from him, together with the other titles of the family, 
 the lordship of Rycote has descended to the present eai’l 
 of Abingdon. 
 
 “ The present gi-eat house of Rycote observes Dela- 
 field, “ seems to have been built by John Lord Williams 
 of Thame, his arms appearing on the grand front ; and 
 an ancient, spacious, and magnificent structure it is, 
 and worthily deserves the character given of it by 
 Camden, who styles it eedes elegantes. It was twice 
 honoured by a short residence of Queen Elizabeth. 
 King Chai-les I. also abode some time at Rycote,” 
 (when the parliament was sitting at Oxford, in 1643-4.) 
 
 “The chapel (Delafield thinks) was probably erected 
 by the Fowlers, about 1500, or later ; for Lelaud 
 (quoted in AVillis’ ‘Cath.’ Line., p. 252) says that Adrian 
 
 September, 1G36. He gave a legacy of ten pounds unto the poor of 
 Haseley.’’ 
 
 ' On the south side of Rycote chapel, near the altar, is a handsome 
 mural monument to the memory of this James earl of Abingdon. See 
 List of Arms, p. 154. 
 
 ■■ See List of Arms. 
 
 * The mansion-house of Rycote was pulled down about thirty years 
 ago. 
 
 L 2 
 
148 
 
 APPENDIX II. 
 
 de Bardis, who in 1501 was installed prebendary of 
 Thame in Lincoln cath., was a great benefactor to 
 the building™.” 
 
 " It appears, however, from the Harleian MS. 245, (see note z,p. 142,) 
 that Richard Quatremain and Sibill (Englefield) his wife were the founders 
 of Rycote chapel. Leland also bears the same testimony. They both 
 died in 1460, as seen above, p. 142. The finishing of the chapel in 
 Edward IV.’s time, spoken of by Leland, was doubtless by Adrian de 
 Bardis, whose arms were formerly in the chapel, and who was twenty 
 years afterwards made prebendary of Thame. See note z, p. 142, ante. 
 
APPENDIX I. 
 
 FAMILY NAMES, 
 
 OF WHICH THE ARMS FORMF.RLT EXISTED IN THE WINDOWS, OR ON THE 
 MONUMENTS OF RYCOTE CHAPEL*. 
 
 I. LORDS OF THE MANOR OF RYCOTE. 
 
 (See a sketch of their history, p. 136.) 
 
 (De Magneville. Quarterly, or and gules.) 
 
 This coat is not recorded by any of the authorities. The 
 chapel having been built about 1460, the arms of the very 
 early lords of the manor are less likely to have been com- 
 memorated in the windows. 
 
 Fulco de Ricote. 
 
 Englefield. Barry of si.Y, argent and gules, a bend 
 azure; on a chief or a lion passant of the third. 
 [L. W.] See No. 11, p. 151. 
 
 Quatremain. Gules, a fesse argent between four 
 dexter hands couped or. [L. W.] See No. 31, p. 152. 
 Fjwler. Ermine, on a canton gules an owl or. 
 [L. W.] See No. 97, and 114. p. 100, and 102. 
 
 Heron. 
 
 Lord Williams of Thame. Azure, four crosses patee 
 and in saltire two organ pipes or. [L.] See No. 
 141. p. 105. 
 
 • The authorities are appended as in the case of Haseley — L, Leigh ; 
 T, Thynne j G, Glover; W, Wood; H, the Harleian MSS.; D, Dela- 
 field. 
 
150 
 
 APPENDIX 1. 
 
 Norris. Quarterly, argent and gules: afesseazure; 
 in the 2nd and 3rd quarters a frette or. 
 
 (On the mural monument of James earl of Abingdon, who 
 died in 1699, see p. 154.) 
 
 Wray. Azure, on a chief or three martlets gules. (See 
 p. 146, and No. 67, p. 154.) 
 
 Bertie. Argent, three battering rams barwise, proper, 
 headed azure, armed and furnished gules. (See 
 p. 147, and No. 67, p. 154.) 
 
 II. GENERAL LIST OF ALL THE COATS OF ARMS 
 FORMERLY IN RYCOTE CHAPEL, 
 
 WITH FAMILY NAMES WHEN ASCERTAINED, ARRANGED ACCORDING 
 TO FIELDS. 
 
 No. 1. Or, a bend fusilly Sides, within a border gobony 
 azure and argent. [W.] Adrian de Bardis. (See 
 p. 147.) 
 
 No. 2. Or, on a fessc gules between three mullets sable 
 (gules ?) as many cross crosslets fitchee argent. [W.] 
 No. 3. Or, a chevron between three crescents sable 
 (gules?) [W.] 
 
 No. 4. Or, a saltier engrailed sable between four crosses 
 gules. [L.] 
 
 No. 5. Or, a bend cotised gules. [L.] 
 
 No. 6. Or, on a bend gules three eaglets argent. 
 Lorraine. 
 
 In the coat of Margaret of Anjou,i»i/ia/cf/by Henry VI. [D.] 
 No. 7. Barry nebule, or and gules. Basset? [L.AV.] 
 No. 8. Cheeky, or and gules; a chief ermine. Tates- 
 iiALE. Seethe “Carlaverock Poem.” [L. W.] 
 
 No. 9. Argent, a chief gules ; over all a bend azure. [W.] 
 
API’ENOIX I. 
 
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 No. 10. Argent, two hounds passant gules. Bketton ; 
 [L. W.] impaled by Quatremain. Compare No. 87, 
 p. 99, llaseley arms. 
 
 No. 11. Barry of six argent and gules, a bend azure; 
 on a chief or a lion passant of the third. Engle- 
 FIELD. [L. G. W.] 
 
 No. 12. Barry of six, argent and azure; a bend gules. 
 Grey of Rotherfield. [L. W.] 
 
 No. 13. Vairee, argent and gules. Gkesley. [L. W.] 
 
 No. 11. Argent, a chevron between three martlets 
 sable. [L. W.] Impaling Gresley, in p. 154. 
 
 No. 15. Argent, a cup covered sable. [L. . T.he 
 
 latter remarks “ said to be Shelley 
 
 No. 16. Argent, a chevron between three escallops 
 sable. Lyttleton de Frankeley in AV orcestershire, 
 [L. AV.] impaled by Quatremain. 
 
 No. 17. Argent, a bend sable within a border engrailed 
 gules bezantA [L. AV.] Impaled by Quatremain, as 
 the one above. 
 
 No. 18. Argent, a chevron between three crescents 
 sable, (gules?) [L. AV^.] 
 
 No. 19. Argent, on a chevron sable, (gules?) three 
 fleurs-de-lis or. [AV.] 
 
 No. 20. Argent, a maunch sable, (gules?) [AV.] 
 Tony ? see “Dorchester Memoir,’^ page 46. 
 
 No. 21. Argent, a chief and a bend gules. [AV.] 
 
 No. 22. Argent, a bend between three (six, L.) fleurs- 
 de-lis gules. [L. AA'^.] See No. 25. 
 
 No. 23. Argent, three fox, or wolves’, heads erased 
 gules, within a border azure charged with castles or. 
 Fow ler. See No. 43. 
 
 [L. T. AV. Tlie latter adds, “ which name also bears an 
 
 ottV, See., as in Haseley.”] 
 
ATPliN’DlX I. 
 
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 No. 24. Argent, a bend azure; a chief gules. [L.] 
 
 No. 25. Argent, a bend between six fleurs-de-lis gules. 
 [L. W.] Fitz Ellis, or Fixz Elys. See “ Guide,” 
 &c., j). 251. 
 
 No. 26. Argent, on a bend . . . ? three martlets sable. 
 [L. T.] 
 
 No. 27. Barry of eight, argent and gules. Hungary'; 
 in the coat of ^largaret of Anjou, impaled by 
 Henry VI. Sec No. 37. [D.] 
 
 No. 28. Argent, three battering rams barwise proper, 
 headed azure, armed and furnished gules. Bertie. 
 (On the mural monument.) 
 
 No. 29. Quarterly, argent and gules; a fesse azure; 
 in the 2nd and 3rd quarters a frette or. Norris. 
 
 (On the mural monument.) 
 
 No. 30. Argent, a fesse between three crescents sable. 
 Lee. 
 
 (As the preceding.) 
 
 No. 31. Gules, a fesse argent between four dexter 
 hands couped or. [L. W.] Quatremain. 
 
 No. 32. Gules, a fesse gohony (or cheeky) argent and 
 sable between three crosses patee fitchee or. [L. W.] 
 
 No. 33. Gules, two bendlets or. [W.] 
 
 No. 34. Gules, a fesse argent. [L. \V.] 
 
 No. 35. Vairee, gules and argent. [W.] 
 
 No. 36. Gules, a bar argent, (the rest broken.) [L. W.] 
 
 No. 37. Azure, semee of fleurs-de-lis or, a label of 
 three points gules. Naples ; in the coat of Margaret 
 of Anjou impaled by Henry VI. [D.] See No. 27. 
 
 No. 38. Azure, semee of fleurs-de-lis or, a bordure 
 gules. Anjou ; as the above. [D.] 
 
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 No. 39. Azure, on a chief or three martlets gules. 
 Wray. 
 
 (On the^mural monument.) 
 
 No. 40. Azure, four crosses patee and in saltire two 
 organ pipes or. Lord Williams of Thame. 
 
 (On the mural monument.) 
 
 No. 41. Sable, a chevron or between three cross cross- 
 lets fitchee argent. [W.] 
 
 No. 42. Ermine, a cross moline. [W.] 
 
 No. 43. Ermine, on a canton gules an owl. Fowler. 
 [L. W.] See No. 23. 
 
 No. 44. Ermine, on a bend gules three chevronels or. 
 Breuley, impaled by Quartremain and by Fowler. 
 [L. W.] 
 
 FIELDS, ETC., DOUBTFUL OR UNKNOWN. 
 
 No. 45. (Argent?) three martlets on abend (sable?) 
 Danvers, [W.] impaled by Fowler. (And by Engle- 
 field, in Harleian MS. No. 245, where a Sir T. E. 
 married Margerrj Danvers, about Henry VII.’s time.) 
 See “ Guide,” &c., p. 388. 
 
 No. 46 ? crusilly or, a saltire argent. [L. 
 
 W.] impaled by Fowler. 
 
 No. 47. Azure? in chief three crowns or. [L. who 
 adds “ broken.”] 
 
 No. 48 ? a chevron between three stars of six 
 
 points ? 
 
 (On the mural monument.) 
 
 No. 49 ? fretty ? 
 
 (On the mural monument.) 
 
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 APPENDIX I, 
 
 QUARTERINGS AND IMPALEMENTS. 
 
 No. 50. Quartremain, No. 31 . . impaling 2 coats, i. 
 
 Lyttleton de Frankley, No. 10, and ii ? No. 
 
 17. [L. W. Side-note by the latter, " Quartermaiu 
 and his two wives.’'] 
 
 No. 51. Quartermain, No. 31 . . impaling Hreuley, 
 No. 44. [L. W.] 
 
 No. 52. No. 14, impaling Gresley, No. 13. [L. W.] 
 
 No. 53. Grey of Rotherficld, No. 12, impaling 2 coats, 
 i. Bretton, No. 10, and ii. Quartermain, No. 31. 
 [L. W.] 
 
 No. 54. Grey of Rotherficld, No. 12, impaling, No. 20. 
 {Tony?) [L. W.] 
 
 No. 55. No. 32, quarterly with No. 5. [L.] 
 
 No. 5G. Quartermain, No. 31, impaling Englefield, No. 
 11. [L. W.] 
 
 No. 57. {Bassett?) No. 7, impaling Grey of Rotherficld, 
 No. 12. [L. W.] 
 
 No. 58. No. 24, quarterly with No. 8, Tateshale. [L.] 
 
 No. 59. Gi'ey of Rotherficld, No. 12, impaling No. 36. 
 [L.W.] 
 
 No. 60. Quartermain, No. 31, impaling No. 22. [L. 
 
 W.] 
 
 No. 61. Fowler, No. 43, impaling Danvers, No. 45, 
 quarterly with Breuley, No. 44. [L. W.] 
 
 No. 62. Fowler, No. 43, impaling No. 46. [L. W.] 
 
 No. 63. Grey of Rotherficld, No. 12, impaling No. 9, 
 quarterly with Tateshale, No. 8. [^V.] 
 
 No. 64. No. 32, quarterly with No. 33. [M .] 
 
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 No. 65. Quartermain, No. 31, impaling Bratton, No. 10. 
 [W.] 
 
 No. 66. No. 41, impaling No. 2. [W.] 
 
 No. 67. The arms on the mural monument to Jamca Bi rtie, 
 earl of Abingdon, &c„ who died 25th of May, 1699, are, 
 i. Bertie; ii. Wray; iii. Norris; iv. Williams of Thame; 
 V. Lee ; vi. No. 48 ; and vii. No. 49. 
 
INDEX OF ARMORIAL BEARINGS. 
 
 The figures, except when otherwise specified, refer to the numbers in the two 
 Catalogues, which are distinguished by the initial letters of Haseley, (H.) 
 and Rycote, (ft.) 
 
 Alphen. (H.) 126, 154, 162. 
 
 Anjou. (R.) 6, 27, 37, 38. 
 
 Barrentyne. (H.) 107, 108, 126, 128, 130, 139, 144, 145, 147, 
 154, 161. 
 
 Bardis,de. (H.) 163. (R.) 1. 
 
 Basset, see page 87. (H.) 35, 70, 115. (R.) 7, 57. 
 
 Beauchamp. (H.) 135. 
 
 Bertie. (R.) 28, 67. 
 
 Bigod, see page 88. (H.) 41. 
 
 Blackall, see page 89. (H.) 84, 85. 
 
 Bohan, or Rohan. (H.) 159. 
 
 Bohun, see page 88. (H.) 31, 140. 
 
 Brecknocke. (H.) 86,97,117. 
 
 Bretton. (H.) 87, 90. (R.) 10, 53, 65. 
 
 Breuley. (H.) 57. (R.) 44, 51, 61. 
 
 Butler. (H.) 54, 134. 
 
 Castile. (H.) 18. 
 
 Clare, de. (H.) 1, 60. 
 
 Clifford? (H.)3, 62. 
 
 Cornwall, Richard, earl of, &c. (H.) 12, 46, 66. 
 
 Cutler, see page 89. 
 
 Danvers. (H.) 95. (R.) 45, 61. 
 
 Delamare, or Gifford ? (H.) 19,71. 
 
 Despencer, see page 88. (II.) 15, 48, 65. 
 
 Deyne. (H.) 157. 
 
 Drayton. (H.) 139, 144, 155, 158. 
 
158 
 
 INDEX OK ARMORIAL BEARINGS. 
 
 Elys, Ellis, or Fitz Elys. (R.) 25. 
 
 England, sec page 88. (H.) 20, 28, 113. 
 
 Englefield. (II.) 123, 124, IfiO. (R.) 11, 45, 56. 
 
 Fowler. (H.) 86, 95, 97, 111, 117, 119, 12.3, 124, 146. (R.) 23, 
 
 43, 46, 61, 62. 
 
 Fox. (H.) 152. 
 
 France. (H.) 28, 113. 
 
 George, St. (H.) 47. 
 
 Giffard, or Delaniare ? (II.) 19,71. 
 
 Grandison. (H.) 122. 
 
 Gresley. (H.) 88, 91, 93, 95. (R.) 13, 52. 
 
 Grey of Rotherfield. (H.) 14. (R.) 12, 53, 54, 57, 59, 63. 
 
 Henry VI. (R.) 6, 27, 37. 
 
 Hewet. (II.) 150, 151. 
 
 Huddleston. (H.) 132. 
 
 Hungary. (R.) 27. 
 
 Ilam. (H.) 146. 
 
 Latymer? (H.) 21. 
 
 Lee. (H.) 98. (R.) 30, 67. 
 
 Leon. (H.) 18. 
 
 Leynthall, see page 89. (H.) 114, 127, 129, 149, 151, 152, 153. 
 
 Long. See p. 89. 
 
 Lorraine. (R.) 6. 
 
 Level. (H.) 115. 
 
 Lyttleton. (R.) 16, 50. 
 
 Magnbville, or Mandeville. (H.) 5. 
 
 Margaret of Anjou. (IL) 6, 27, 37. 
 
 Mautravers. (H. ) 76, 143. 
 
 Maylyngs, or Molyns. (H.) 34, 81, 144, 155, 160. 
 
 Mortimer. (H.) 116. 
 
 Naples. (R.) 37. 
 
 Norris. (R.) 29,67. 
 
 Plecy ? (H.) 37. 
 
 Popham. (H.) 128, 144, 15-5, 157. 
 
 Pypard, see page 89. (H.) 7, 44, 63, 129, 149, 150_ 
 
NDEX OK ARMORIAL BEARINGS. 
 
 159 
 
 Quatremain. (II.) 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 91, 124. (R.) 10, 10, 17, 31, 
 
 41, 50, 51, 53, 56, 60, 65. 
 
 Reade. (H.) 126, 130, 154. 
 
 Roberts, earl of Radnor, see page 89. 
 
 Rohan, or Bohan. (H.) 159. 
 
 Seorave. (H.) 158. 
 
 Sha, Shaa, or Shaw. (II.) 119. 
 
 .Shelley? (R.) 15. 
 
 Stonor. (H.) 156. 
 
 Tatesiiale. (R.) 8, 58, 63. 
 
 Throgmorton. (II.) 160. 
 
 Tony. (R.) 20,54. 
 
 Trumpington. (H.) 53. 
 
 Tyes. (H.) 9, 04. 
 
 Vere, de. (H.) 24, 43, 73. 
 
 Wage. (H.) 8,50. 
 
 Wake. (H.) 2, 42, 61, 131, 
 
 Warren. (H.) 58. 
 
 Warwick, Guy, earl of ? (H.) 102. 
 
 Welles, de. (H.) 4. 
 
 Whistler. (H.) 111. 
 
 Williams of Thame. (H.) 141. (R.) 40,67. 
 
 Woolfe. (H.) 90. 
 
 Wray. (R.) 39, 67. 
 
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