A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



tower arch is of three moulded orders and moulded 

 jambs, the inner members of which have moulded 

 capitals and bases. The west doorway has a two- 

 centred arch with continuous mouldings, under a 

 square moulded label, with head stops. In each 

 spandrel is a quatrefoiled circle containing a shield ; 

 the shield on the north is charged with a mitre, that 

 on the south with three leopards. To the south of 

 the doorway is a small plain recessed stoup. The 

 tracery of the three-light west window is modern. On 

 each face of the belfry stage is a two-light window 

 with quatrefbil in the head, nearly all in cement. 



The basin of the font is square, and on each side 

 are five shallow round-headed panels ; it belongs to 

 the nth century and stands on a modern base. 



Under a window-sill on the south wall of the 

 nave is a brass inscription to John Duke, farmer at 

 Thorley Hall, who died in 1606. 



There are three bells: the first inscribed 'John 



pittancer for the garments of the monks in 1336.* 

 Apparently before this date the advowson had been 

 acquired by the Bishop of London," probably in the 

 same way as Saw bridge worth *' (q-?-). If the appro* 

 priation ever took place, the living was a rectory in 

 i535,* 6 from which the Abbot of Walden received a 

 pension of 53/. 4/. This was surrendered to the 

 Crown in 1538" and granted in the same year to 

 Sir Thomas Audley.* The advowson remained with 

 the see of London until the latter part of the 19th 

 century. The patronage is now vested in the see of 

 St. Albans." 



Francis Burleigh, presented by Queen Elizabeth 

 during a vacancy of the see of London in 1594, was 

 one of the translators of the Authorized Version of the 

 Bible." 



Thomas Turner, who was rector from 1680 to 

 1689, was in 1688 elected president of Corpus Christi 

 College, Oxford, where his tenure of office was marked 



Thorley Church from the South-east 



White, James Cramphorn, Churchwardens, 1681'; 

 the second, 'God save the King, i6a8' by Robert 

 Oldfeild ; the third, by William Wightman, 1682. 



The communion plate consists of cup and cover 

 paten, 1562, one paten, 1809, another, 1818, a 

 flagon, 1839, and a pewter flagon. 



The registers are in three boob, as follows : 

 (i) baptisms, burials and marriages 1539 to 1750; 

 (ii) baptisms and burials 1750 to 1812, marriages 

 1750 to 1754 ; (iii) marriages 1754 to i8iz. 



The church of Thorley was part 



ADVOWSON of the endowment of Walden Abbey, 



founded by Geoffrey de Mandeville 



(ob. 1 1 44)." It was appropriated to the office of 



"HarL MS. 5697, foL 18. 



a Ibid. fol. 14.4. 



w The Bishop of London presented 

 n I 3 a 7 (see Cussans, Uiu. cf Htru. 

 Irawhiag Hund. 104). 



« Hurler, the eel] to Westminster, 



had part of the tithes 

 Kick. Tax. [Ree. Com Jp 

 bridge worth). 



« Vahr Etd. {Rec Com.), i, 4 ;i. 



43 Feet of F. Herts. East. 30 Hen. VIII. 



" L. and P. Hen. fill, xA\ (1), ; 7! . 



376 



by the erection of Turner's, now called Fellows' 

 Buildings. S3 



In 1686 Thomas Hoy by his will 



CHARITIES gave a rent-charge of 6s. per annum 



to the poor. This sum is received 



out of a farm called Rumbold's and is applied in 



bread given to a poor widow. 



In 1706 the Rev. Thomas Turner, S.T.P., a former 

 rector, by his will gave a sum of £50 to be laid out 

 in land, the rents and profits to be applied in binding 

 a poor child apprentice to some honest trade. A 

 piece of copyhold land contiining about 3 acres 

 situate in the common field called North Field was 

 purchased, which produces £4 yearly, and a child is 



of Thorley (Pofi 



It came subsequently to Henry Higtum 

 (see Chan. Inq. p.m. [Ser. 2], eciyii, 105). 

 11 Information from Rey. J. E. I. 

 Procter, rector ; see Saw bridge worth. 



