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Let him whn travels past this spnt, 

 Plead, and adore the cross alway, 



And, that his sins may be forgot. 

 For Fair Rosamond must he pray. 



CLIFFORD CHURCH. 

 [By the Rev. T. W. Walwyn Trumper.] 



There is not very much to be said about the Church. It is dedicated to 

 St. Mary the Virgin, and probably was built about the 14th century. The oak 

 roofs are handsome, substantial, and in good repair. There is a curious old 

 window on the south side of the nave which has been a puzzle to more than one 

 architect. 



The tower is very strongly built, and is of good proportions, the mortar has 

 become as hard as the stone, and they cling together in one impenetrable mass. 



The most interesting feature in the Church is the figure of a monk, described 

 by Silas Taylor as follows : — 



" In ye Church is ye tombe onely of a fryor, cutt exquisitely in wood, under 

 an arch of ye north side, and nothing else as I could meet with ; viewed May 20, 

 1657." And he goes on to say 



" Chappies of ease are many, as one by ye Castle of Clifford, the steeple 

 and chancel yet remaining ; then ye Church of ye priory wherein was the burial 

 of ye Cliffords but all destroyed ; then those in Middlewood ; and not farre thence 

 St. Oswald's Chappie, besides the parish Church." 



The parish Church has now been entirely restored. 



The living of Clifford belonged to the Walwyn family, who seem to have 

 been connected with the neighbourhood from a very early period ; it now is, and 

 has been for some 150 years in the possession of the Trumper family, who obtained 

 it through kinship with the Walwyns. 



Appended is an old pedigree which has been copied at the request of the 

 Hon. Sec, Mr. H. C. Moore. 



PART OP PEnlGRKE 



that was taken out of a worm-eaten shedule (sic.) which hanged up in Major 

 Walwyn 's parlour of Huntington. 



The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance. 

 The Paternal Pedigree of Margaret (late wife to Samuel Baynham), from Sir 

 Ely Walwyn, who died Anno quinto Edwardi primi, and was byried at the Hay. 



1. 

 Sir Ely Walwyn Knight. William Walwyn married 

 2. Margaret, daughter to Sir 



Thomas Walwyn, Esq., married Bryan Harley. 

 the daughter and heiress of Sir John Walwyn, Esq., 

 John Hellins, Knight, her married, 

 mother daughter and heiress Thos. Wahvyn married 

 of Jno. Hackket of Marcle. EUenore, daughter and 



