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Chapman, Willi* 



In the chancel are the brasses of Will 

 1621, and his wife, 1636, with an inscripti 

 the north side of the nave is a brass of the late I 5th 

 century of a civilian and his wife, with a shield of arms 

 of Humberstone ; at the west end is a brass of Edward 

 Humberstone, 1583, and his wife, which is said to be 

 a palimpsest ; it has an inscription. In the north aisle 

 is an inscription only to William Bramfeilde, 1596 ; 

 in the vestry a brass, with an imperfect inscription, to 

 John Humberstone, 1 5 90, and an inscription to 

 Rychard Humberstone, 1 581, which is a palimpsest 

 on an inscription to John Lovekyn, 1370. 



Besides these brasses and the 13th-century monu- 

 ment described above there are two 17th-century 

 mural monuments, the one in the south wall of the 

 chancel to Daniel Gorsuch and his wife, 163 8, a classical 

 composition with kneeling figures, and the other on 

 the south side of the nave to Giles Humberstone, 1627, 

 and his wife, having kneeling figures, arms and an 

 inscription. 



The small oak pulpit is of the early 16th century. 

 It is octagonal, with plain 

 panelled sides. 



The chancel screen of 

 five bays is of the 15th 

 century. The upper panels 

 of the side bays are open 

 and traceried, and the lower 

 are close. The centre is 

 occupied by the doorway. 



There are five bells, the 

 first being dated 1626, by 

 an unknown founder ; the 

 second is by Thomas Mears, 

 1833 ; and the third, fourth 

 and fifth of 1713, by John 

 Waylett. 



Hai 



de Lanvaley, the second husbai 

 de Bocland, gave ihe church t( 



of 



the 



monastery of St. John the Baptist at Colchester, 

 and in 1204 the abbot and monks were 'canonically 

 instituted and inducted ' as rectors, saving the vicarage 

 of Geoffrey de Bocland for his life, on condition that 

 he paid them 1 mark yearly." No more is heard of 

 the vicarage, so that probably after the death of 

 Geoffrey de Bocland the monastery either served the 

 church by one of their own monks or put in a 

 stipendiary. The living was a rectory at the Disjo- 

 in 1546 the advowson was granted to Sir Philip 

 Hobby and his heirs. 97 After this the descent lacks 

 documentary evidence for more than a century. It 

 is said to have come into the possession of John Cock 

 of Broxbourne, whose son Henry Cock conveyed it in 

 1560 to Henry Willan of Kelshall, who sold it in 

 1564 to George Brende of London. In 1587 

 George Brende sold it to Edward Home, then rector, 

 who conveyed it in 1 604 to Conant Prowse, and in 



18 12, burials 1680 



marriages 1680 to 1812. 



Boxe is said to have 

 anciently been a parish possessing a church. In 

 1 700 the foundations of the church are said to have 

 been visible in a field called the Church-yard, near 

 Boxe Wood. 93 There is no mention of Boxe Church 

 in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas or the Valor Eccleii- 

 asticus of Henry VIII, but it is worthy of note that 

 at an early date the tithes of Boxbury were in 

 different hands from those of Walkern. 



A certain Hamo, brother of 



ADVOWSON Robert de Villiers, possibly a lord 



of the manor, gave two parts of 



the tithes of Walkern and a bordar with 2 acres 



to the monastery of St. John at Colchester. 83 



Walkern Church 



1609 the latter sold it to Agnes Wardley, widow. 

 Five months later she conveyed it to William Hum- 

 berstone of Digs well, who sold it before 1632 to 

 Daniel Gorsuch. It was afterwards purchased by 

 Andrew Gardiner, who conveyed it in 1669 to the 

 Rev. Samuel Gardiner, w who presented in 1686." 

 It was purchased from him in 1702 by King's Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, 90 the present patrons." 



The tithes of Boxbury belonged to St. Alban's 

 Abbey before the Dissolution, and were leased in 1518 

 to William and Alice Day for forty years from July 

 1531. William and Alice sold their interests in 1519 

 to John Norreys, after whose death they were to come 



61 Tins book has all the entries written, 

 no new marriage register of the form 

 prescribed by Hardwicke's Act of 1753 

 having been obtained {Midi, and Hern. 

 N.andQ.iv, 137). 



" Chauncy, Wu. of H,rtu 370. 



"S Cat. Chart. R. 1*26-57, P- 4 2 +- 



M Carl. Mm. St. John B, 

 (RoxWghe Club), i, 200. 



*'- Ibid. 126. 



98 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com 

 grant of the rectory in 

 Robert Tyrwhitt at the pric 

 purchase may have lasted 

 when the advowson wa; 



57 



(Partie. for Grants, Augm. Off. 38 

 Hen. VIII, no. 576). 



87 Pat. 38 Hen. VIII, pt. xiii, m. 7 ; 

 CI. D. ofPurch. and Exck. 395. 



85 Cussans, op. cit. Broad-water H«ni. 

 L. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



m Close, 



An nt, 



.. Bits. (P.R.O.). 



