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Clapham

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Transcribed from Owen Manning & William Bray, The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, vol. III (1814), pp. 359–372.

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CLAPHAM,

A PARISH about four miles from Westminster Bridge, in the road to Epsom, and in that to Sutton and Reygate, is bounded on the East by Lambeth, by Battersea West and North, and Streatham on the South. It contains 1120 acres, of which the greater part is pasture, the soil light and gravelly.

The Common called Clapham Common contains 202 acres. It was little better than a morass, and the roads over it almost impassable, till the late Christopher Baldwin Esq. by his private influence and his exertions as a magistrate, brought it into its present state, by mending the roads, and draining and planting it. The trees are so disposed as to give it the appearance of a Park. Mr. Lysons says, that a few years before he wrote (1792), Mr. Baldwin sold 14 acres near his house for 5000l. being 357l. an acre. In 1810 Mr. Robert Thornton sold his land here at 500l. an acre.

There has been a dispute of very long standing between the Parishes of Clapham and Battersea respecting part of this Common; Battersea claims about half, but the Inhabitants of Clapham insist that the whole, as far as Battersea Rise, is in their parish. In 1716 the Inhabitants of Battersea inclosed with a ditch and bank that part which they conceived to be within their boundaries; the Inhabitants of Clapham filled up the ditch and leveled the bank, for which an action of trespass was brought by Lord Viscount St. John, then Lord of the Manor of Battersea, which was tried at the Lent Assizes at Kingston in 1718, when his Lordship suffered a non-suit. The Inhabitants of Battersea however keep up their claim, by including the disputed ground in their perambulations^a.

That part of the Common which is next Wandsworth is called Battersea Rise, and has many large houses, of which the late Thomas Astle Esq. had one^b. That very eminent citizen Sir John Barnard spent the latter part of his days in honourable retirement at his house here, where he died in 1764, but he is buried at Mortlake; see p. 305.

Near the road from Clapham to Wandsworth is a reservoir of fine water, from which the whole Village is supplied; the well was formerly so small that a sufficient quantity of water could not without difficulty be procured from day to day.

About the beginning of the eighteenth century several Roman antiquities were found in some fields belonging to Mr. Hewer by labourers digging for gravel^c.

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The Manor-house is near the old Church, and has for many years been used as a Boarding-school for Ladies. An octagonal tower, the base of which forms a bow-window in a large room, rose higher than the rest of the house, as is seen in the prints taken of it; but the upper part has lately been taken down. Mr. Lysons, in the Additions to his Environs of London, says it is most likely that it was built by Bartholomew Clerke, Dean of the Arches, and Lord of this Manor, who died in 1589. The circumstance of Queen Elizabeth's dining at Clapham in 1583 (probably with this Dean) is mentioned in the Churchwardens' Accounts of Lambeth.

In 1808 the Rental on which the Property Tax was paid was 22,400l.

In the time of King Alfred, Ælfrid a duke gave 30 hides of land in Cloppeham to Worburgh his wife for life, remainder to Ald'hdryth his daughter and her issue; and if none, then to his next kin by his father, paying her half the value; the owner of these lands to pay 200 pence a year to the Monks of Chertsey.

Domesday, Tab. XII.

Goisfrid de Manneville holds Clopeham. Turburn held it of King Edward. Then it was taxed for 10 Hides [1000 acres], now for 3 Hides. The Arable Land consists of 7 Carrucates [700 acres]. In Demesne there is 1 Carrucate and 8 Villans, and 3 Bordars with 5 Carrucates. There are 5 acres of Meadow. In the time of King Edward it was worth 10l. [600l.]; afterwards the same; now 7l. 10s. 0d. [450l.] The Inquest of the Hundred say that Goisfrid has this Manor unjustly, because it does not belong to the land of Asgar; but that Goisfrid gave of this Manor in alms to the value of 20 shillings [60l.]; [but it is not said to whom it was given.]

It appears by the above that Geoffrey de Mandeville was in possession at the time of the Survey; but he held it unjustly, because it did not belong to the land of Asgar. It seems therefore that Geoffrey had had a Grant of Asgar's lands, and under pretext of that, took possession of Clopeham, though it had never been Asgar's. He however kept it, and Nigel de Mandeville was lord here in 1103. How much longer it continued in that family does not appear; but after it was alienated it was still held of the Honour of Mandeville^e.

Pharamus de Bolonia, nephew to Maud wife of King Stephen, became possessed of this Manor; his daughter and heir, Sibell de Tingria, married Ingelram de Fienes, who was slain at the battle of Acon in the Holy Land in 1190^f. A Charter of King Richard's is extant, which restores to her this Manor with all its privileges, as it was enjoyed by her husband and her father; and empowered her to marry whom she pleased^g. William her son and heir was living 8 John 1207, and died 25 Henry III. 1241, leaving Ingelram his son and heir, who was succeeded by his son William, living in 54 Henry III. 1270, and who in 7 Edward I. 1279, is stated to have held it of the Earl of Hereford, the mesne lord between him and the King^h.

William de Fienes died seised of it 30 Edward I. 1302. In the Inquisition taken on his death it is stated that he some time held (20 marcs annual rent out of the Manor of Kersalton, whereof he enfeoffed William de Ambezas and Joan his wife and their heirsⁱ, and) the Manor of Clopham in capite of the Earl of Hertford and Essex, by the service of suit to the Courts of

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Hertford and Blaunchapeltone in London; and that he had enfeoffed Thomas Romeyn and Julian his wife and the heirs of Thomas, of this Manor. It was found that John was his son and heir, aged 24^k. 3 Edward II. Thomas and Julian had grant of free warren^l. Julian died 19 Edward II. 1326, seised of this manor, a capital messuage, 254 acres and a quarter of arable land, 20 of meadow, 140 of underwood, and 6 of pasture, rents of assize of free tenants and bondmen 9l. 11s. 9d.¾, 3 cocks and 6 hens; the whole being of the value of 28l. 15s. 7d.½; leaving her daughters her heirs, viz. Roese wife of John de Burford, and Margery wife of William de Weston^m, who was of Albury in this County (see in Albury, vol. II. p. 126, and in West Clandon in this volume, p. 53).

2 Edward III. 1329, Roese de Burford and William de Weston and Margaret his wife were found to hold this Manor of Humphry de Bohun, then within age and a ward to the Kingⁿ. At length Clopham fell to the share of Weston, and continued in that family till the time of Henry VI.

In the 13th Henry VI. 1435, it was found that this Manor had been settled on William Weston and Agnes his wife, and the heirs of their bodies; that William died 28 August last; that Robert was his son and heir, aged 22; and that Agnes was then the wife of John Founteyne^o. In the same year Robert de Weston, son and heir of William Weston and Agnes his wife, released divers parcels of land here to the said John Fountain. In the next year he released to him 8 messuages, 140 acres of land, &c. and 10l. 9s. 0d. rent in Guldeford, &c.^p In the 15th year he conveyed to Machon a field called Wodefield, containing 300 acres^q; and on 16 February in the following year he conveyed the Manor to William Wetenhale, citizen and grocer of London, and Margaret his wife, John Olton, clerk, and others^r. This however seems to have been only a conveyance in trust, for in the 18th year he, stiling himself now Lord of Clopham, ratified a deed of Thomas Romayn, formerly lord, made in the 20th Edward II. 1327, to John Rous, of a messuage and 24 acres of land in this Vill, with common of pasture for 600 sheep and 30 beasts, viz. oxen and cows, on the demesne pastures, feeding in all places where the beasts of the Lord feed, and rendering 8s. 2d. a year; of which tenements Adam de Barton and Agnes his wife were at that time seised to them and their heirs^s.

Richard Gower Esq. died possessed of this Manor 11 Edward IV. 1472^t. John Gower, probably son of Richard, took part with Henry VI. and was with that King at Palm Sunday Field, and with Edward Prince of Wales at Tewksbury Field, where Gower was slain, and attainted. It seems that this Manor was thereupon granted to George Ireland and Margaret his wife; for in an Inquisition taken 29 October 13 Edward IV. 1474, it was found that Ireland died seised thereof on 29 September then last, leaving Thomas his son and heir aged 12^u.

But in 1 Henry VII. 1485, a Petition was preferred in Parliament by Ann Pympe daughter of Reynold Pympe and Elizabeth his wyfe, cosyn and heir of John Gower late of Clopham in Surrey Squier then dead, that is to say, daughter of the said Elizabeth, who was daughter of Lowys, sister of the said John Gower, praying a reversal of his attainder, which had taken place on account of his being on King Henry's part, as above-mentioned. The Petition was granted^x.

No further account of this Manor is found till 15 Elizabeth, 1573, when William Chelsham of London mercer died seised thereof, leaving William his son and heir aged 27^y.

In 1580 Sir Thomas Cokayne (Lord Mayor of London) conveyed it to Philip Okeover and Richard Crompton^z, perhaps in trust for Bartholomew Clerk, who was Dean of the Arches, and died seised of it 16 March 31 Elizabeth 1589, leaving Francis his son and heir aged 11^a. Francis presented to the Church in 1600 and 1604^b, and seems to have sold the estate to John Haulsey Gent. who presented in 1615^c.

Shortly after it was sold to Henry Atkyns, Physician to King James I. who paid 6000l. for it, which according to a tradition in the family arose from presents bestowed on him by the King after his return from Scotland, whither he had been sent to attend Prince Charles, then

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an infant, who lay dangerously ill of a fever. It has been said that he was offered the first Baronetage, which he refused, but his grandson Richard was so created 12 Charles II. The last of the family who enjoyed that title was Sir Richard, fourth in descent (see the Pedigree hereafter), who had succeeded his brother Sir Henry, and dying without issue in 1756 devised his estate to his sister Penelope wife of George Pitt Esq. of Stratfield Say in Hants, who was created Lord Rivers in 1776. This lady is still alive, but has been long separated from her husband. Mr. Lysons said in 1792 that within the then last 19 years the rental of her estate here had been raised from 1335l. to 2031l.^d Her life-interest has been purchased by Samuel Thornton Esq. M.P. for this County.

PEDIGREE of ATKINS of Clapham.

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William de Breuse died seised of two knights' fees in Clapham 19 Edward I. 1291^e. These lands probably formed the estate which in the seventeenth century belonged to Sir Dennis Gauden, brother of Dr. Gauden Bishop of Exeter, who was said by some to have been the author of the ΕΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ, which passed as the work of King Charles I. Toland, in his Amyntor, or Defence of Milton, says that Dr. Gauden was to have had the bishoprick of Winchester, but was put off with that of Worcester; and that it was in expectation of this that the great house on Clapham Common was built, in the name indeed of Sir Dennis Gauden, but really intended to have been a mansion-house for the Bishops of Winchester^f. Certain it is that there was a magnificent house built here, which was pulled down about the year 1762. Some of the rooms were wainscoted with japan, and a spacious gallery occupied the whole length of the house, above and below stairs. It was the residence of Sir Dennis, who had here a very valuable library, and other collections, particularly engraved portraits, models of ships, “matters of all sorts relating to the City of London, and “draughts to illustrate them, and frontispieces of all the Gravers in Europe^g.” Sir Dennis died in 1688, and was buried at Clapham 1 July^h. The house and estate were afterwards purchased by William Hewer Esq. one of the Commissioners of the Navy to King James II. and Treasurer for the late Garrison of Tangierⁱ. This gentleman by his Will devised his estate to

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his relation, son of the Rev. Samuel Edgeley, then Vicar of Wandsworth; in consequence of which he took the name of Hewer, and made it his residence. On his death his widow lived here; but the estate, nearly as large as that of the Manerial Estate, has been sold in parcels to different persons^k.

THE CHURCH.

The Benefice is a Rectory in the Deanry of Southwark, paying 7s. 7d. to the Archdeacon for Procurations, and to the Bishop for Synodals 2s. 1d.¼. In the Valor of 20 Edward I. 1291, it is rated at 14 marcs, and was a Pensionary of 20s. to the Priory of Merton. It is valued in the King's Books at 8l. A Terrier, without date, is in the Registry at Winchester.

We have seen that William de Fienes conveyed the Manor to Thomas Romeyn and Julian his wife; this Thomas in 15 Edward II. 1322, founded a Chantry here, and endowed it with 6 marcs rent out of a tenement which was John Burford's. It was confirmed by Pat. in this year p. 1. m. 21. This tenement was probably part of what, on the death of Julian in 19 Edward II. 1326, went to her daughter Roese, who had married Burford, and was one of her coheirs.

The Church is not mentioned in Domesday; but there was one in the twelfth century, the Advowson of which was given to Merton Priory, probably by Faramus de Bolonia, who gave Carshalton to them.

The old Church stood on an eminence, sloping down to the road from London to Kingston. It was dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and consisted of a Nave, a Chancel, a North and South Transept, the former of which was occupied by the monuments for the Atkins family. About the year 1715 Mr. Hewer (owner of the estate which had been the Gauden's) added a North Aile, with a Gallery at the West end of it, carrying it from the North Transept to the West end of the Nave. Against the North wall of this Aile is the monument for Mr. Hewer. Afterwards the Parish added a South Aile. In 1774 an Act of Parliament was passed, with consent of Mrs. Pitt, Lady of the Manor, enabling the Parish to build a new Church on a part of Clapham Common to be inclosed for that purpose; but it was provided that the Burials should be continued in the old Church-yard, to which a piece of ground has since been added. This Church was opened in 1776. The North Aile of the old Church was preserved for performance of the Funeral Rites. On this occasion the Parishioners behaved in a manner which does them great honour: instead of taking down the monuments and selling them to a stone-mason (as was done in a parish a few miles distant), they carefully preserved and even repaired and cleaned them. Under the site of the Nave is a large vault, called The Parish Vault. (See Monumental Inscriptions, No. 37.)

The new Church is 90 feet long and 60 broad within the walls, in three ailes. It is very handsomely fitted up with galleries on all sides except the East. The Pews are of foreign oak. The Communion Table is within a recess at the East end. There are entrances at the East and West ends; at the former is a Vestry-room and a Committee-room; the latter which has a fire-place, and having a large door opening into the Church is filled with chairs, which are lett at half a guinea a year each to those who prefer that accommodation to seats. The East Window is of modern painted glass, but is not

In the West Gallery is a very handsome Organ. Against the East Wall in the South Gallery is a marble with this inscription:

“John Castell Esq. of this Parish, who died December 1st 1804, aged 70, bequeathed to “the Parish the sum of £.500 South Sea Stock, the annual interest of which was directed to “be applied in the following manner: one guinea to the Preacher of a Sermon in this “Church on the 27th of December in each year; and to the Organist, Clerk, and Sexton, “half a guinea each; the remainder to be then distributed amongst 12 poor Housekeepers “who do not receive alms of the Parish, half in bread and half in coals, in such manner as “the Rector and Churchwardens think proper. — This Memorial was erected by an additional “Legacy bequeathed for that purpose.    J. Bacon jun. ft. London 1806.”

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The Registers begin in 1552; but on the death of a Curate of Clapham (after Mr. Lysons's first publication in 1792) some of the earliest Volumes of the Parish Register, in consequence of their bad condition as to binding, were heedlessly thrown by, amongst other books, as of no value, and sold as waste paper. After much fruitless search, the present worthy Rector, Mr. Venn, traced them by accident to a chandler's shop, and fortunately recovered them, with the loss of only a few leaves. He has had them new bound; and has taken every precaution to prevent the recurrence of a similar misfortune. Lysons's Additions, p. 19.

THE ADVOWSON

was probably given to the Priory of Merton by Pharamus de Bologne, who was Lord of the Manor, and lived in the time of Henry II. in the twelfth century^l. It was never appropriated. 36 Henry VIII. 1545, it was granted to Sir Thomas Arundel and Henry Saunders. It passed to the family of Atkins, and has gone with the Manor ever since.

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS.

In the Old Church.

1. On a black grave-stone, near the Monuments next mentioned: Here lyeth the body of Sir Henery Atkins Knt. the only sonne of Henry Atkins Physician in ordinary to King James of blessed memory, and King Charles now raigning, who by his appointment is here interred by his wive's mother Mrs. Agnes Hawkings, and his youngest sonne John, obiit 8 Julij anno Domini 1638, ætatis suæ 44.

2. On a tomb are the recumbent figures at full length, in white marble, of Sir Richard Atkins (son of Sir Henry), and his Lady. He is represented in armour with a flowing peruke; she has a long veil which hangs down behind. The tomb is surrounded with rails, decorated with the arms of his family and its alliances, and pennons with various crests. On the South side is inscribed: Memoriæ Sacrum Dⁿⁱ Ricardi Atkins de Clapham in Com. Surr. Militis et Baronetti, qui obiit 19° Aug. a° Christi 1689, et D^næ Rebeccæ mœstissimæ ejus relictæ, filiæ et cohæredis Edmundi Wright (alias Bunckley) de Swareley in Com. Middlesex, Equitis aurati, ex quâ decem suscepit liberos; filios nempè duos, filias octo, viz. Annabellam et Rebeccam quæ (unâ cum Henrico) cœlibes obierunt, duas filias abortivas, unumque filium et filias quatuor superstites, scil^t Ricardum, Mariam, Agnetem, Elizabetham, et Rebeccam.

3. On the North side: D. Ricardus Atkins Baronettus, filius et hæres d'ci Ricardi, duxit in uxorem Elizabetham, filiam Thomæ Bide de Ware Park in Com. Hertf. Militis. Maria Atkins Rev° in X'po Pr'a Guli'mo (Moreton) Episcopo Kildarensi in Hiberniâ, nupta est; Agnes, Edvardo Atkyns Arm° filio 2^do genito Roberti Atkyns de Saperton in Com. Glouc' Militis Balnei, se connubio junxit; Elizabetha, Thomæ Tooke de Wormley in Com. Hertf. Arm° desponsata est, et Rebecca Wolstano Dixie Arm°. (filio et hæredi apparenti D. Beaumontis Dixie de Bosworth in Com. Leic. Baronetti) se matrimonio copulavit^m.

4. On a black marble tomb in the Church-yard, supported with black and white marble, surrounded with iron rails, was the following inscription on a black marble tablet on the North side: Here lye the body's of Sir Richard Atkins Knt. and Bart. Dame Rebecca his wife, Henry their eldest son, Arabella their eldest, and Rebecca their second, daughters. N.B. the tablet is now broken off and lying by the tomb.

5. On the East wall is the monument of the three children above-mentioned, Henry, Rebecca, and Annabella: Under an arch, supported by columns of white marble of the Corinthian order, are their effigies as large as the life; the son is sitting, in a Roman dress, with a flowing peruke; the daughters are dressed in gowns, with full sleeves puckered, and plain stomachers. The eldest is sitting

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with a book in her left hand, the other standing with a scull in her hands. Under the youngest daughter: Here lyeth ye body of Rebecka ye daughter of Sir Richard Atkins of this place K^t and Bar^t by Dame Rebecka his wife. She departed this life in the 9th year of her age ye 10th day of June 1661. Atkins's arms on the tomb, 3… in chief 3 plates, hand for a Bart. impaling Sa. a chevron Arg. charged with 3 plates between 3 bulls' heads Arg. Under the other female figure: Here lyeth also the body of Annabella the daughter of the aforesaid Sir Richard, who died at Paris January the 1st in the 19th year of her age, and interred here 1670. Under the man: And also the body of Henry the eldest son of the aforesaid Sir Richard. He departed this life the 15th of February 1677, ætatis suæ 24. Under each are 10 verses, but not worth transcribing; they may be seen in Aubrey, I. 151, 152.

6. On the North wall, on a large marble scroll, under two angels holding a bust of a man, with an anchor over, the arms at each bottom corner, Sa. 2 talbots' heads erased in pale Or, between as many flaunches Ermineⁿ. H. S. E. Gulielmus Hewer de Clapham Armiger filius Thomæ Hewer de Londinensis, natus Londini Nov. 17, 1642, Regibus Carolo et Jacobo 2^dis, à faustissimo utriusque in Patriam reditu 1660 ad infelicem alterius Angliâ discessum 1688, servus diligens, fidelis, dilectus. Qui multa et perquam difficilia obivit, munera oberundis omnibus par. De Tingitani propugnaculi conservatione quamdiù illud conservari voluit Rex optimus, de eodem tandem diruendo cum id videbatur maximè expedire, probè curavit, publici æris administer. Eorum quæ ad maritima spectarent negotia ita gnarus erat et expertus, ut inter classis regiæ Curatores et præpositos optimo jure conscriberetur; in iis quæ commercio promovendo inservirent ita perspicax erat et indefessus; ut Mercaturæ ad Indos Orientales unâ cum viris in re mercatoriâ primariis multoties præficeretur. In singulis quæ ubique loci gessit Officiis id potissimum sibi proposuit ut principis honori et patriæ emolumento jugitur consuleret Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ institutis et disciplinæ per universum vitæ cursum firmiter et tenaciter adhæsit. In Deo colendo sine fuco assiduus, in pauperibus sublevandis sine ostentatione beneficus, in amicis et convivis excipiendis facilis, …… et sine luxâ hospitalis. Ad annos tres ultra septuagesimum vitam duxit innocentem, utilem, cœlibem, mortique pie succubuit Dec. 3, 1715. Hewer Edgeley Hewer Armiger, quem vir laudatus sanguine sibi conjunctum filii loco habuit, et hæredem ex Testamento reliquit, Monumentum hoc exiguum gratitudinis suæ indicium posuit. Under it is a brass plate which was taken from Mr. Hewer's coffin, on opening the vault for the burial of one of the family, which is thus inscribed: William Hewer of Clapham Esq. Trea^r for Tanger to K. Ch. 2^d & Comm^r of the Navy to K. James 2^d, ob. 3^d Dec^r an^o Domⁿⁱ 1715, æt. 74.

7. On a plain marble, on the same wall, is: In memory of Thomas Martin Esq. formerly a Banker in Lombard Street, who lived in this Parish 49 years, and died April 21st 1765, full of years and good works. He with Elizabeth his wife and William Martin Esq. his brother, lye buried at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire.

8. On the South wall is the Tablet of Bartholomew Clerke, Dean of the Arches, and Lord of this Manor, who died in 1589. Under a recess are figures of himself, his wife and son, kneeling. Above are the arms of Clerke and Heselrigge^o. Under him:

Obiit Martii 12 an° ætatis suæ 52° 1589. Under the woman:

—9. On the same wall on a marble Tablet: Near this place is buried the body of Martin Lister, Doctor of Physic, a Member of the Royal Society, and one of Queen

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Anne's Physicians, who departed this life the second day of February 1711-12^p. Adjoining this is a small Tablet inscribed, Hannah Lister deare wife! died the first of August 1695, and left six children in teares for a most indulgent mother. From the different arms it seems that he married a second wife^q.

—10. On the South wall: Samuel Rush Esq. to the pious memory of Samuel Rush Gent. his father, and Elizabeth Rush his sister, and four of his children, erected this Monument. Underneath lye the body's of his father, who dyed Jan. 9, A.D. 1710, æt. 67; and of his sister, who dyed April 18, A.D. 1703, æt. 25. In the new vault of this Church lye his three sons, Samuel aged 14 years, William 13 years, Charles 10 months, and his daughter Martha five years, who all dyed in the year 1713, and within the space of two months. So sudden was his loss of so hopefull an issue. To which has been added: Near the body of her husband lyes also interred Hannah the relict of Samuel Rush Gent. She died May 23d 1722, aged 80 years. See No. 20, in the Church-yard.

—11. On a black grave-stone, on what was the South side of the Altar, but which is now in the open Church-yard: Here lyeth the body of Sir Laurence Bromfeilde Knt. who deceased the 20th of June 1668, aged 70 yeares. As also the body of his grandchildren, Charles Corbett, who deceased the 11^d of June 1660, aged 14 dayes, and of Thomas Corbett, who dyed the 18th of October 1667, aged 17 yeares.

—12. On a brass plate, which was in the middle aile, but which is now fixed on the North wall: Gulielmus Glanvill Generosus, Mercator Exoniensis, fessus itinere (quod Londinum suscepit) necnon febris violentiâ fatigatus hîc requiescit. Obiit 16 Junii anno Dom. 1647, et ætatis suæ 57.

—13. On a black marble was this, of which no trace now remains: Sub spe certâ resurgendi depositum humanum Thomæ Day Armigeri, qui natus erat apud Read juxta Roistonam Com. Hertfordiensi, denatus decimo tertio die Augusti anno Dom. 1668, ætatis suæ 56.

—14. On a brass plate in the same aile, now fixed on the South wall: Hic jacet Will'm's Tableer, qui obiit xiii^o die mensis Octobris anno D'ni M^oCCCC p'mo cujus a'iæ p'picietur Deus. Amen.

—15. On a monument on the wall near the South door of the South aile: M.S. Underneath lyes interred the body of Mr. William Brooke of this Parish Merchant. He was a tender husband, an indulgent father, a sincere friend, and a good Christian. He departed this life in sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality the 4th day of February 1711-12, and in the 70th year of his age. Here also lyes the body of Mrs. Dorothy Crofford, mother to the wife of the abovesaid Mr. William Brooke. She departed this life the 15th day of June 1712, aged 75 years.

—16. On a plain marble in South wall, is, Beneath this marble, in a vault, are deposited the remains of Benjamin Hooper Esq. who died October 4th, 1735, aged 90 years. Mr. Benjamin Mee, who died August 19th, 1745, aged 70 years. Mrs. Mary Wightman, who died November 2d, 1755, aged 50 years. Mrs. Sarah Mee, who died March 28th, 1760, aged 85 years.

—17. On the South wall, against the Church-yard, on the outside, on an oval marble, is inscribed: In a vault near this place are deposited the remains of John Lewis Esq. Commander of the Valentine East Indiaman, who departed this life November 18, 1790, aged 40 years. Sacred to whose memory this Monument is dedicated as a small testimony of affection by Sophia his wife.

—18. On a flat stone, where the Chancel stood (and was within it), is inscribed: Here lyes the body of the Rev. Mr. John Goodwin, M.A. 23 years Rector of this Parish. He died January 22d, 1753, in the 71st year of his age. He married Barbara daughter of Sir Woolstan Dixie Bart. of Bosworth in Leicestershire, by whom he had one son John, now Fellow of New College Oxon, and one daughter Rebecca, wife of Nicholson Calvert Esq. of Hunsden in the County of Hertford. And likewise the body of the aforesaid Barbara, who died July the 15th, 1767, in the 79th year of her age.

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John Thornton Esq. of this Parish, who died the seventh day of November 1790, aged 71 years; and on the top stone of ditto: Here are deposited the remains of Mrs. Lucy Thornton, wife of John Thornton Esq. of this Parish, who died the 1st of November 1785, aged 63 years. Also Lucy Thornton their daughter, who died an infant the 8th of December 1755. Also Harriett daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Thornton, who died the 24th of October 1786, aged 5 months. Also Henry Milnes son of Samuel and Elizabeth Thornton, who died the 29th of September 1790, aged 8 months. Also the remains of Lucy Leslie daughter of Lord and Lady Balgonie, and granddaughter of John and Lucy Thornton, who died the 11th of February 1791, aged 14 months. Also the remains of the daughter of Henry and Mariann Thornton, who died 4th of August 1798, being the day of her birth. Also the remains of the son of Henry and Mariann Thornton, who died May 16, 1799.

—20. On a high marble tomb, with an urn at top (Arms under it, North and South side, and at East end of the tomb), is inscribed on a tablet on the South side: Subter in sepulchro jacent reliquiæ Samuelis Rush Armigeri, qui mortem obiit 13 Martii 1724, ætat. 55. Juxta illum conduntur septem ejus liberi (Ingenii præstantis Ephebus) novissimus, vitâ exivit 18 Julii 1726, ætat. 16. In eodem sepulchro jacet quoque Martha prædicti Samuelis vidua, quæ 23 Augusti 1759 e mortua est quum annos octaginta quatuor vixisset. On a tablet on the North side is: Sub eodem marmore sepultus jacet Samuel Rush Armiger (duorum prædicto Samueli filiorum superstitum novissimum) cælebs obiit 24 Junii 1783, ætat. 68^r. (See the monument in the Church, No. 10.)

—21. On the South tablet of a raised tomb, North East of Church, with the arms at the West end, is: Under this tomb lies interred the body of William Lethieullier Esq. late of this Parish, who married Mary daughter of Henry Powell of the said Parish Gent. by whom he had eleven children, seven of which survived him, viz. Mary, John, Sarah, Anne, Elizabeth, Martha, and William. He departed this life the 17th of September 1728, in the 82d year of his age. On the North tablet is: Here also lieth entombed the body of Mary, relict of the aforesaid William Lethieullier Esq. who departed this life the 9th of October 1741 aged 85 years. Likewise the body of Mr. Edmund Tooke, who married Mary daughter of the above-named William and Mary Lethieullier; he departed this life the 7th of November 1729 aged 73 years. At the East end of ditto, is: Here lieth the body of Mrs. Mary Tooke, relict of Mr. Edmund Tooke Merchant, who departed this life September the 30th 1751, aged 75 years. Here are interred the remains of Mrs. Martha Brady, wife of the Rev. Mr. Nicolas Brady, youngest daughter of William Lethieullier and Mary his wife, who departed this life the 23d of February 1765, in the 74th year of her age.

—22. On a raised tomb, North side of the Church: In this vault lies interred the body of John Lewis Loubier Esq. who departed this life the 19th day of February 1767, aged 64 years. Also Magdalen Loubier, wife of the above John Lewis Loubier Esq., who departed this life the 30th day of April 1767, aged 63 years.

—23. On a tomb on the same side, with arms at top, is: Here lies the body of Dame Rebecca Dixie, daughter of Sir Richard Atkins late of Clapham in the County of Surrey Baronet, who died December 7, 1744.

—24. On a black marble, now partly broken off, was: Here lieth the body of Mary Palmer, late wife of Richard Palmer of this Parish, who departed this life January the 11th, 1711, aged 60 years. Here also lieth the body of Richard Palmer, who departed this life May the 16th, 1713, aged 56 years, who served King Charles the Second, King James, King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne, as Yeoman of the Guard. Here also lieth the body of Mary, neice to the above Richard Palmer, and late wife of Benjamin Bennett of St. Olave's Southwark, who departed this life the 7th day of December 1714, in the 25th year of her age. On a black marble tomb was (now lost) Here lieth interred the body of Michael Mitford Esq. who departed this life the 27th day of August 1707, ætat. suæ 52.

—25. On another: Here lieth the body of George Langham of this Parish Esq. who departed this life the 4th of April 1683 (inserted, Thomas Langham Esq. was buried Aug. 7, 1695). Here also lyeth the body of Thomas Juxson of Mortlack in this County of Surrey Gent. who departed this life the 7th of June 1705 aged 69. Under it, Peter Harvey Esq. died 22d Dec^r 1740 aged 62 years. Jane Harvey, wife of Peter Harvey Esq. died 9th April 1762 aged 81 years.

—26. On a

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tomb on the South side of the Church-yard: M. S. Conditur hoc tumulo obsequia quidque mortale est Reverendi viri Samuel Symond, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Presbiteri, admodum pii, probi, prudentis, fidi, Anima quod digna fuit & quod diù deperiit, ad Beatorum Consortium concessit Tricessimo die Januarij 1699, & peregrinationis suæ 45.

—27. Arms, on a black marble tomb at the West end: Here lyeth interred the body of Mr. Arthur Shallett merchant, who departed this life the 4th of February 17¹⁰⁄₁₁, aged 60. Also here lyeth the body of Joseph Shallett Esq. Consul of Barcelona, who departed this life August the 4th 1713, aged 58 years. Also here lieth the body of Mrs. Sarah Shallett, wife of the abovesaid Arthur Shallett, who departed this life July ye 29th 1720 aged 63 years. On the North side of the tomb: Mrs. Sarah Shallett died 20 March 1746 aged 51 years. The Rev. Mr. Arthur Shallett, died 6 March 1749 aged 65 years.

—28. Near the former, on a black marble slab, supported with brick-work: Here lyeth the body of William Sheldon late of this Parish Gent. who departed this life the 23d of January 1700 in the 84th year of his age. Also here lyeth the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Sheldon his wife, who departed this life ye 25th of January 1708 aged 83 years.

—29. On a black marble tomb: Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Margate Whiting, the wife of William Whiting late Minister of Tuting, who departed this life the 16 day of June 1676 aged 84 years. [This is not now to be found.]

—30. On a tomb, at the East end: Here lyeth the body of Thomas Barkley late of London Goldsmith, sonn of Thomas Barkley late Rector of Cotgraves in the County of Nottingham, who departed this life the 6th of June 1695 aged 31 years. Also Hester Barkley widow, mother of the said Thomas, daughter of Thomas Wright late Vicar of Ecclesfield in the County of York, who dyed the 16th of June aged 59 years. Also Jane Wright, maid, sister to the said Hester Barkley, who died the 19th of September 1695 aged 49 years. [This is so much sunk and decayed that it will soon be illegible.]

—31. At the East end are two tombs surrounded with iron rails; on one, Here lyeth the body of Mr. Francis Bridges, late Citizen of London, some time of this Parish, who departed this life the 30th of May anno Domini 1642.

—32. On the other, The body also of Sarah his wife, expecting the coming of Christ, who shall change this vile body, and make it like unto his glorious body. She departed May ye 21, 1680, ætatis suæ 63.

—33. On the North side of another tomb: Hic jacent corpora Gulielmi Beake Armigeri, Civis Londinensis, natus 4^to die Novembris 1594, obiit 2^do Martis 1667. Et Mariæ uxoris ejus, nata 22 die Jan. 1597, obiit 13 Decembris 1667, nupti 42 annos. Hic quoque jacet corpus Mariæ Turgis filiæ Gulielmi et Mariæ Beake, uxoris Thomæ Turgis Armigeri, Civis Londinensis defuncti, quæ obiit 12 die Julij 1724 anno ætatis suæ 88.

—34. On a tomb on the North side of the Church-yard: Here are deposited the mortal remains of the Rev. Thomas Urwick, during 26 years the able, faithful, and beloved Pastor of the Protestant Dissenting Church in this Parish. He was born December 8, 1727, and died after a short confinement on the 26th day of Feb^ry in the year 1807. Here also are deposited the remains of his wife Mary Urwick, who departed this life on the 17th of June 1791 aged 65 years.

—35. On a tomb inclosed by iron rails: Sacred to the memory of Alexander Strachan Glennie, who died the 26th of May 1807 aged 12 years and 4 months.

—36. At the East end of it: In this vault are deposited the remains of Mary Ann Gilliat, who died August 22d 1811 aged 18 years.

—37. On the outside South wall of the Church: In memory of Mrs. Margaret Castelfranc, whose remains are deposited in the vault of this parish. She died the 29th November 1790 aged 70 years. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon her, and she caused the orphan's heart to sing for joy.

—38. Adjoining it: In memory of Mrs. Susanna Wood, formerly of this Parish, who died the 14th of October 1806 aged 65 years. They were friendly in their lives, and in the grave they were not divided.

—39. On the outside of the South wall: In memory of Katherine wife of the Rev. Moses Porters, Curate and Lecturer of this Parish, who died at Bath Dec^r 10th 1788, in the 47th year of her age, and lies interr'd in the Burial-ground of the Parish of Walcot:

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—40. On a tomb in the Church-yard, South side: In memory of William son of William and Ann Cole of Bleak Hall in this Parish, who died the 4th of September 1749, aged 12 months and 3 weeks. Also John who died the 30th of September 1754, aged 4 months and 4 days. Also William who died the 19th of September 1759, aged 8 years 7 months and 8 days. Also John who died the 18th of October 1761, aged 10 weeks. Also Mr. William Cole (grandfather to the aforesaid children) who died the 18th of November 1762, aged 73 years. Also Mrs. Ann Cole, mother of the aforesaid children, who died the 24th of September 1770, aged 42 years. Also Mr. Richard Cole her son, who died the 7th of August 1791, aged 39 years. Also Mr. Henry Cole, brother to the above, who died August 30th 1805, aged 49 years.

On a grave-stone (from Rawlinson's Notes on Aubrey, in the Bodleian Library):

Rawlinson does not give the name, and the Parish Clerk insists that there never was such an inscription; but it is so epigrammatic that I cannot resist the temptation of enlivening so heavy a part of the work by inserting it here.

A Meeting-house here was founded by Mr. William Bridge, a Divine of considerable celebrity, and one of the five Independent Ministers in the Westminster Assembly. Among the most eminent of his successors were, Thomas Lye, one of the leading Divines among the Independents during the Interregnum; Henry Wilkinson, one of the Assembly of Divines, who had been Canon of Christ Church, and Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford; the learned Moses Lowman, who wrote on the Revelations; and Dr. Philip Furneaux, who published some Letters to Mr. Justice Blackstone on Toleration. The present Pastor is the Rev. James Philipps.

There is a Meeting-house for the General Baptists, established in 1794, endowed with 30 guineas per annum and the interest of 2000l. both given by Abraham Atkins Esq. Lysons's Additions.

On a large open piece of ground in the street of Clapham is the Free School, consisting of a house and a new octagonal part. In front of the octagonal part is inscribed

THE FREE SCHOOL.

It does not appear to have had any endowment. Over the door at the North-west corner,
The School built in this Place A.D. 1648 was by Voluntary Subscription
pulled down and rebuilt A.D. 1781.

In 1811 upwards of 100 boys and 40 girls were educated here on Dr. Bell's Plan, supported by voluntary subscriptions; and contributions have been made for new building or enlarging the School, so as to make it capable of receiving 200 children.

VICARS.

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The Register begins 1552.

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MOSES PORTER, Curate of Clapham.
WILLIAM EVES, Churchwarden.

[Entry continues into Tooting]

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