A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



pointed arch in a square head with tracery and roses 

 in the spandrels. The jambs are much decayed. 

 At the foot of the tower staircase is a door with 1 5 th- 

 century ironworic. The south porch, which has 

 undergone much restoration, has windows in the 

 east and west walls. The entrance is a pointed arch 

 in a square head. The tower arch is of three moulded 

 orders with shafted jambs. The font now in use 

 is modem. Reference has already been made to 

 the remains of a font of earlier date. The pulpit 

 is made up of early i yth-century paneDing, and has 

 the arms of Leventhorpe and other families inlaid in 

 wood. 



The monuments include one of especial interest, 

 that of an unknown knight and his lady, of the late 

 14th century, probably Sir Walter or Sir John de 

 la Lee. It stands in the north aisle and is a fine 

 altar tomb with panelled sides and effigies in clunch, 

 which afford an excellent example of costume and 

 armour. The knight is attired in a short hauberk 

 and a richly ornamented jupon. He wears a 

 bascinet with the hinge for the visor plainly indicated ; 

 the aventail, jambs, thigh-pieces and brassarts are 

 also ornamented, and he wears plate gauntlets. His 

 head rests on a fine helm with its lambrequin, sur- 

 mounted by the crest, a kneeling angel. The lady 

 wears a sideless gown and her hair is inclosed in an 

 L-laborate hair-net. The inscription is lost, and the 

 arms and hands of the figures are gone, except the 

 knight's left upper arm and the tips of his fingers. 



There is a brass in the nave of an unknown knight 

 in armour, his wife and child ; there is also a crest 

 on the brass ; the inscription is lost. Also in the 

 nave are a brass of John Scroggs, his wife and child, 

 with two shields ^*^ and a skull above, 1592, and 

 floor slabs to Sir Leventhorpe Frank, 1657, and John 

 Scroggs and his wife Elizabeth, 1692. On the 

 north wall of the north aisle are tliree detached brass 

 shields and a brass record of a 16th-century charity 

 left by Ann Barley. On the south wall of the south 

 aisle are a brass of Thomas Leventhorpe, 1588, his 

 wife Dorothy, daughter of William ' Barlce,' and six 

 children, and two 14th-century roundels with 

 symbols of the Evangelists. 



The bells are three in number ■ the first and second 

 are by Henry Jurdens of London, who died in 1470, 

 and, therefore, date from about the time of the 

 erection of the tower ; the third is by Robert 

 Oldfeild and is dated 1607. 



The plate includes a cup of 1626. 



The registers previous to 1812 are as follows : 

 (i) all entries 1558 to 1657; (ii) 1669 to 1730; 

 (iii) baptisms and burials 1730 to 1812 and mar- 

 riages 1730 to 1754 ; (iv) marriages 1754 '° 1812. 



The church of Albury was granted 

 JDFOff^SON by Robert de Sigillo, Bishop of 

 London, to the treasurer of St. 

 Paul's,*' who appropriated it. The church was a 

 peculiar of the Bishop of London, exempt from all 

 jurisdiction except that of the bishop.™ The 

 treasurers of St. Paul's held the rectory and advow- 

 son'^ until 1845, when the patronage was transferred 

 to the Bishop of Rochester, the Venerable Archdeacon 

 Jones, then treasurer, retaining the right of presenu- 

 tion during his lifetime.'^^ After the creation of 

 the bishopric of St. Albans in 1877 Albury was 

 transferred to that diocese, and the patronage of 

 the church is now in the hands of the Bishop of 

 St. Albans. 



There was a chantry in the church of Albury to 

 which 56 acres of land were attached,'' but nothing 

 further is known of it. 



In 1587 Francis Gunter, in con- 

 CHARITIES sideration of a certain devise by will 

 of Mrs. Ann Gunter, his mother, 

 charged an estate in Standon with an annuity of ^^3 

 for the distribution of \zd. in bread every Sunday, 

 6s. for a sermon in Easter week, is. to the vicar, and 

 6d. to each of the churchwardens. The annuity 

 is now represented by ;^loo consols, of which 

 jf 87 5/. ^d. stock has been apportioned to the poor 

 and £ii 14/. jd. stock, producing 6/. 8/ yearly, for 

 the ecclesiastical payments. 



In 1594 Thomas Leventhorpe by his will devised 

 his interest in certain hereditaments situated in 

 Whitecross Street, St. Giles Without Cripplegate, 

 London, one-half of the profits to be for the use of 

 the poor of Albury and the other half to the use of 

 the vicar. In 1867 the land was sold to the Metro- 

 politan Railway Company and the proceeds invested 

 in ^^1,425 19/. 4</. consols, of which one moiety 

 (j^7i2 19/. 8(/. stock) has been transferred to the 

 governors of Queen Anne's Bounty for the benefice 

 and the other moiety retained for the poor. 



In 1822 Thomas Mott by his will left £\ a year 

 to be distributed in bread or money among twelve 

 of the poorest families. The legacy is represented by 

 j^l 50 6/. \od. consols. 



The several sums of stock, except where otherwise 

 stated, are held by the official trustees. The 

 annual income applicable for the benefit of the poor, 

 amounting to ^23 15/., is distributed in coals. 



The Poor's Land. — A sum of ^£3 a year is also 

 received as rent of an acre of land, of which £1 is 

 given to the oldest widow and £■} los. as the rent 

 of certain cottages, presumably derived from the 

 charity of the Rev. Marmaduke Bickendyke, a former 

 vicar, will, 1589, and of Sarah Bishop, 1762. 



^®* The arms ascribed to Scroggs of 

 Patmore in Mundy's additions to Herts. 

 Pedigrees (HarL MS. 1 546), printed in 

 Vhit. of Hera. (Harl. Soc), Appendix II, 

 163, are : Argent a bend azure be- 

 tween two greyhounds running bend- 

 wise sable ^th three peewits or on the 



bend. They are entirely different from 

 those on this brass, which are a cross 

 engrailed between four cinqfoils. The 

 second shield on the brass has a cheveron 

 between three boars' heads, for Burton. 



® Newcourt, Repert. i, 791. 



'» Eoit Hera. Arch. Soc. Tram, ii, 229. 



" Popi Nici. Tax. (Rec Com.), 19A; 

 Cal. Pat. 13 1 3-17, p. 190 ; Lond. Epis. 

 Reg. Stokesley, fol, 50 ; Close, 1651, pt. 

 Kvi, no. 25 i Init. Bks. (P.R.O.), 1733, 

 1804. 



" Cussans, op. cit. Edv/irutrcc Hund. 

 168. " Pat. 14 Eliz. pt. ii, m. 7. 



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