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The porch is new ; the nave and chancel re-built and re-seated with open seats, 

 the flooring being laid down with Godwin's encaustic tiles. The only old window 

 left is the north window in the chancel. Wailes of Newcastle supplied the 

 painted glass for the chancel windows. At the restoration of the Church the base 

 and shaft of the churchyard cross were found built into the east wall of the 

 chancel, and the head was recovered by the Rev. H. T. Moggridge, who was then 

 rector, from a cottage on the side of Herrock Hill. The dedication of the Church 

 is to St. Michael and All Angels, and is shown in the small painted window in 

 the tower — St. Michael slaying the dragon. 



NOTES ON KNILL. 

 [By Mr. F. Tidd Pea.tt.] 



Few places possess simpler annals than this little border parish, the lordship 

 of which has descended through the families of Knill and Walsham to its present 

 owner. Sir John James Walsham, Bart., only son of Col. John Garbett (after- 

 wards Walsham), whose mother was daughter and sole heir of John Walsham, of 

 Knill, (See Baronetage). There can be no question that the earliest lords of Knill 

 were the direct ancestors of Francis Knill, who entered his pedigree* at the 

 Visitation of 1569, and was father of Barbara Knill, who married John Walsham, 

 of Presteign, and conveyed to him the estates of the family and its representation ; 

 but the exact succession and names of these earliest lords of Knill cannot now be 

 recovered. The most ancient deed in the possession of Sir John Walsham, 

 belongs to the latter part of the reign of Edward I., at which date, Ralph, son of 

 Sir John de Knyll, was lord of the manor.f Knill Court, enlarged about the year 

 1561, seems to have been then a substantial stone mansion, of five bays, with a 

 superstructure of timber, wide gables, and barge boards of bold design. Nash 

 considered the eastern and larger portion of the house to have been built temp. 

 Edward II., and care has been taken in the recent restorations to preserve most 

 of the old features. The Court stands in the midst of scenery of surpassing 

 beauty. 



The interior of KniU Court, with its many family portraits, was visited, by 

 the kind permission of Lady Levris. The following inscription, in mediaeval type, 

 appears on the arch over the front door: — "Joannes de Knill, miles, Gulielmi de 

 Braosa Marchiae Walensis custodis filius, setate minor, idemque sub Ricardo 



*The pedigree begins with John Knyll, father of William, whose son John left (by his wife, 

 Margaret, d. of Sir John Lingen) a son and heir, Jenkyn Knyll, who, by Ann, d. of Sir Richard 

 Devereux, had John Knill and others. John Knill (H.S. of Radnorshire, 1561, and M.P.) by his 

 first wife, Margery, d. of Whittington of Pauntley, left at his death, in 1564, an only son, the 

 above Francis, who m. Jane, d. of Hugh ap Lewis, of Harpton, and was father of John, o.s.p. , 

 Sibil!, m. Jno. Price, and Barbara, wife of John Walsham, who eventually inherited, as heir 

 general, the Knill estates. 



tin Collin's Peerage it is asserted that James Sitsilt (anc. of the Marquises of Exeter and 

 Salisbury) m. towards the end of the twelfth century, Isabel, d. of Sir John de Knyll; .and 

 besides the undated charter already mentioned, Sir J. VValsham has a marriage settlement made 

 at Eyton, 1293, securing a dowry to Adam de Eyton, husband of Isolda, daughter of Amicia, 

 widow of John de Knyll. The celebrated Cardinal Eyton was grandson of Isolda de Knyll. 

 Arms of Knill : — Gules, a lion rampant, and semee of cross crosslets fitchee or — being the some 

 (differenced only in colour) as those of the Barouial house of Braose. 



