SPELTHORNE HUNDRED 



HANWORTH 



James I. Besides being groom 01 the privy 

 chamber, he was granted the right to farm the 

 profits of the Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, 

 in return for which he supported the court 

 interest in Parliament, where he represented various 

 Cornish Boroughs in succession. 89 In 1600, during 

 his keepership of the park, Elizabeth visited 

 Hanworth, and remained some days, spent mostly 

 in hunting in the park. 100 Sir William Killigrew 

 died in 1622, and his son Sir Robert transferred 

 the remainder of the lease of Hanworth Park to 

 Lord Cottington. 101 Of the various members of 

 the Killigrew family who were born or baptized at 

 Hanworth three suffered to a severe extent for the 

 royal cause. Sir Robert's elder son William was 

 gentleman-usher to Charles I. He compounded 

 for his estates in 1653 and was restored to his 

 position at court under Charles II. 10 " His brother, 

 Henry Killigrew, D.D., a prebendary of West- 

 minster, suffered many hardships during the 

 Interregnum. He recovered his stall at the Restora- 

 tion, and was made almoner to the Duke of York, 

 and died as rector of Wheathampstead in Hertford- 

 shire in 1693. 10> Both he and his brother attained 

 some fame as dramatists, and his daughter Anne 

 Killigrew was a poetess of some note at the time. 10 * 

 Sir Thomas Killigrew, the son of William, was also 

 probably born at Hanworth. He acted as page to 

 Charles I, and accompanied Charles II in exile."* 

 When Hanworth Park came into the possession 

 of Lord Cottington he effected several improve- 

 ments. In 1629 he wrote to Lord Strafford : 

 ' There begins to grow a brick wall all about the 

 gardens at Hanworth, which though it be a large 

 extent yet it will be too little for the multitude of 

 pheasants, partridges and wild-fowl that are to be 

 bred in it.' "* And further that ' dainty walks 

 are made abroad inasmuch as the old porter with 

 the long beard is like to have a good revenue by 

 admitting strangers that will come to see these 

 varieties. It will be good entertainment to see 

 the amazement of the barbarous northern folk who 

 have scarce arrived to see a well cut hedge, when 

 the fame of these varieties shall draw them thither.' "" 

 His wife Anne, daughter of Sir William Meredith 

 and widow of Sir Robert Brett, took an equal 

 interest in the park. He speaks of her as ' the 

 principal contriver of all this machine, who with 

 her clothes tucked up and a staff in her hand, 

 marches from place to place like an Amazon 

 :ommanding an army.' 10 In 1635 Lord Cot- 

 tington entertained the queen and all her court in 

 great splendour at Hanworth. 1 " 9 He received 

 a grant of free warren here in 1638 as well 

 as licence to inclose 50 acres of land. 110 When 

 hostilities broke out between the king and 

 Parliament, his Royalist sympathies led to a search 

 for arms in his house at Hanworth." 1 Cottington 

 himself was away, and the house was in the charge 



of his servants. These petitioned Parliament for 

 the apprehending of the delinquents, who had 

 come with swords and guns and had attempted to 

 pull down the palings of Hanworth Park and~to 

 ransack and pillage the house ' under colour of a 

 pretended power to search for arms by virtue of 

 a warrant surrepticiously gotten as the petitioners 

 conceive and was directed to none there present.' ! " 

 There was a second attack on the house a few 

 months later (January 1642-3), when a company 

 of soldiers forced an entry and took away all the 

 weapons they could find. When pleading for the 

 restoration of the arms or for licence to furnish 

 themselves with others, Lord Cottington's ser- 

 vants urged the need of means of defence against 

 vagabonds, thieves and robbers, because ' the house 

 stands removed from any neighbours and destitute 

 from others in time of danger.' 113 The house, 

 which stood near the church, was destroyed by fire 

 in 1 797. The moat and a few traces of the build- 

 ings may still be seen. The present house stands 

 further to the south-east. It was built by the 

 Duke of St. Albans shortly after the destruction of 

 the older mansion. 114 In the igth century it was 

 well-known to bibliophiles for the fine library of 

 old books and manuscripts collected by Mr. Henry 

 Perkins, which was sold by auction in 1873. 

 The house is now the residence of Mr. Alfred 

 Lafone, J.P., to whom and to Mr. James Scarlett 

 and others Messrs. Pain & Bretell sold the park 

 about 1873. 



The church of ST. GEORGE is 

 CHURCH a modern building of stone in 

 14th-century style, and consists of an 

 apsidal chancel 24ft. gin. by i8ft. 5 in., a nave 

 60 ft. 3 in. by 23ft. 3 in. with north and south 

 porches, a north transept 1 3 ft. loin, long by 

 1 4 ft. 3 in. wide, and a north-east tower with a 

 tall broach spire. The ground stage of the tower 

 is used as a vestry. The churchyard is inclosed 

 by an iron railing on a dwarf wall, and is entered 

 from the south-east through a well-designed 

 wooden lich-gate. 



There is one bell, by Thomas Mears, 1814. 



The plate consists of a silver cup and paten 

 (1632) bearing the arms of Francis Lord Cotting- 

 ton, the donor; a silver paten (1781); chalice (1874) 

 and flagon (1882). The registers begin in 1731. 

 The church is first mentioned 

 ADVOWSQN in 1293, when the advowson 

 occurs in a grant of the manor. 115 

 The living is a rectory, the patronage of which 

 descended with the manor (q.v.) until it was sold 

 by Henry Perkins to the rector, the Rev. Oswald 

 Joseph Cresswall, before 1 866. 1 ' 6 It was in the gift 

 of Mr. John Bagot Scriven in i874, 117 from whom 

 it passed to the Rev. John Lyndhurst Winslow, 

 who was rector of Hanworth from l879. 118 The 

 advowson is now held by his widow. 



M Diet. Nat. Biog. xivi, 116. 

 1 Nichols, Program of Q. El'n. 

 passim. 



101 S.P. Dom. Cha. I, ccclxxvii, 177. 



loa Did. Nat. Biog. zxxi, 116. 



> Ibid. 1 68. 



Ibid. Ioi Ibid. 



104 I*jtotl9 9 Environs of London (1800), 

 v, 52, quoting Strafford Papers, i, 51. 

 iw Ibid. " Ibid. 



" Ibid, i, 463. 



110 Pit. 13 Cha. I, pt. xxiv, no. 2. 

 J " Hiit. AfSS. Cam. Ref. v, App. 43. 



111 Ibid. I" Ibid. 



395 



114 Beautia of Engl. and ffalei,* (4), 



5>7- 



114 Feet of F. Lond. and Midd. 22 

 Edw. I, no. 208. 



P.O. Dir. 1866, Eiux . . . Midd. 

 596. 



W Cltrgy Lht, 1874. "Ibid. 1879. 



