HERTFORD HUNDRED 



wife, 1609, with recumbent effigies, in alabaster, 

 under a semicircular canopy with panelled soffit over 

 which is the achievement of arms ; on the plinth 

 below are the kneeling figures of two daughters and 

 their children. In the chancel is a mural monu- 

 ment to William Gamble alias Bowyer, 164.6, with 

 inscription and arms. In the north chapel is a mural 

 monument to Sir R. Skeffington, 1646, and another 

 to John Baylie, 1609. There are several 17th- 

 century floor slabs to members of the Monson and 

 Rawdon families ; in the south aisle is a tablet in 

 memory of John Loudon McAdam, the great road 

 maker, who was buried at Moffat in 1836. 



On the chancel floor is the brass of a priest in 

 chasuble and holding a chalice ; it is without in- 

 scription, but is of late 15th-century date; another 

 of a priest in cassock and amice is also without inscrip- 

 tion. At the corners are symbols of the Evangelists, 

 and part of an inscribed scroll remains ; it belongs 

 to the early 16th century. In the nave are indents 

 of a knight and a lady ; a portion of the knight's 

 figure remains. In the centre of the nave is a shield, 

 vair bordered crusilly, and dated 1630 ; also the brass 

 of a knight clad in armour and holding a mace, 

 said to be that of John Barrell, serjeant-at-arms to 

 Henry VIII. This brass was recovered from Roding 

 in Essex in 1 892. 



There are eight bells : the treble, second, third 

 and sixth are dated 1903 ; the fourth, fifth and 

 seventh by Robert Oldfeild, 161 5, and the eighth by 

 John Hodson, 1670. 



The communion plate consists of cup and cover 

 paten, 1606, a paten, 1633, a cup and cover paten, 

 1824, and two flagons. 



The registers before 1 8 1 z are as follows ; (i) baptisms, 

 burials and marriages from 1688 to 1 741 ; (ii) baptisms 

 and burials from 1741 to 18 iz, marriages 1 74 1 to 

 1754; (iii) marriages from 175410 i8iz. 



The church of ST. PAUL, Hoddesdon, near the 

 centre of the town, was built in 173a and repaired 

 in 1822 and 1849; in 1865 the building was 

 enlarged by the addition of a chancel with north and 

 south chapels or aisles; in 1888 the brick tower 

 and spire were added. It now consists of chancel 

 35 ft. 6 in. by 21ft., north and south chapels or aisles, 

 each 34 ft. by 19 f:., nave 61 ft. 6 in. by 31 ft., vestry 

 and semi-detached tower, east of the south nave wall ; 

 all the dimensions are internal. The church is built 

 of brick with stone dressings. There are eight bells 

 in the tower hung in 1 90 1. The plate consists of 

 three chalices, two patens and a flagon, all modern. 



The advowson of the church of 

 ADFOWSONS St. Augustine originally belonged 

 to the lords of the manor of Brox- 

 bourne and was granted together with that manor 

 to the Knights Hospitallers by Robert Earl of 

 Leicester." In 1190, however, Garner of Naples, 

 Prior of the Hospitallers, granted the church of 

 Broxbourne to the Bishop of London for a yearly 

 payment of 4 marks." The advowson remained in 

 the hands of the Bishops of London until 1852, 



BROX BOURNE 



WITH HODDESDON 



when it was transferred to the Bishop of Rochester. " 

 In 1868 it was acquired by Mr. Smith -Bosanquct, 

 lord of the manor, 76 and is now in the hands of 



Sir John Say left zoo marks in 1478 for a priest 

 to sing mass for his soul for twenty years," and his 

 son Sir William Say built the chapel of our Lady 

 within the parish church of Broxhourne as a chantry 

 for his family (see above). He also left to the chapel a 

 chalice of silver gilt and 'a payer of crueis of silver parcel 

 gilt with other ornaments as shall be necessary for the 

 chapel.' The salary of the priest belonging to the 

 chapel was to be paid out of Sir William's lordship 

 of Bengeo. 78 In 1578 it was reported that until 

 about thirty-three years before two priests had been 

 accustomed to sing mass in ' Sir William Saye's 

 chapel,' and received £10 a year for it. It was also 

 stated that until thirty-five or thirty-six years before 

 ' there was usually set up a hearse in the midst of the 

 church, furnished with lights and torches, and bells 



There was a chapel at Hoddesdon in the 14th 

 century which seems to have been appurtenant to the 

 manor of Hoddesdon. It was the subject of a dis- 

 pute in IZ42-3 between Alexander de Swercford, 

 Treasurer of St. Paul's, and Humphrey and John de 

 Bassingburn. 80 Alexander acknowledged the right of 

 the Bassingburns to the advowson, and Humphrey 

 and John granted that the chapel should be moved 

 back to its former situation by the side of the road 

 which led to the court of Alexander de Swereford 

 and near to the court of Humphrey dc Bassingburn. 

 Humphrey and John also agreed to supply a chaplain 

 to celebrate service daily for their souls and that of 

 Alexander and of their ancestors, and they confirmed 

 all lands previously belonging to the chapel. 81 This 

 chapel seems to have fallen into disuse, for in 1336 

 William de la Marche obtained licence to build a 

 chapel in honour of St. Catherine on a ' void place ' 

 in Hoddesdon, 30 ft. by 20 ft., and to alienate it in 

 mortmain when built to a chaplain or religious man. 83 

 In the time of Henry IV witnesses declared that the 

 chapel lay in the parish of Great Amwell, 83 and in 

 1650 it was said to be partly in Amwell and partly in 

 Broxbourne. It was then suggested that it could be 

 conveniently constituted a parish church for Hoddes- 

 don B ' ; the suggestion, however, was not carried out. 

 At the end of the 17th century the chapel was pulled 

 down, with the exception of the clock-tower, which 

 remained until about 1836.^ 



In 1 844 the parish of St. Paul, Hoddesdon, was 

 formed as a consolidated chapelry out of Broxbourne 

 and Great Amwell. 86 The living is a vicarage, and 

 the patronage goes with that of Broxbourne. 67 There 

 is a mission church at Rye Park, served from the 

 parish church. 



The priory of St. Monica at Hoddesdon is now 

 used as a convent of the order of Canonesses Regular 

 of St. Augustine." 8 There are also Congregational, 

 Wesleyan, and Baptist chapels there, as well as meet- 

 ing places of the Society of Friends 89 and Plymouth 



" Chart. R. 1 John, pt. i, m. 



u Hhl, MSS. Com. Rep, ix, App. i. 



a Lt*J. Gax.I n dix, 164. 



* Eav Htris. Anh. Sac. Tram, i, 



77 P.C.C. 35 Wattyi, 



* B Ibid. 6 Thorver. 



