HERTFORD HUNDRED hertingfordbury 





four daughters — Susannah wife of John Darnell, Anne 



wife of John Jeve, Elizabeth wife of Rowland Hall, 



and Alice — between whom the 



property was divided." Alice, 



who was a lunatic, and her 



three sisters were all living in 



l6o6, JS but it is not known to 



whom Epcombs afterwards 



descended. Susan Darnell had 



four daughters, of whom the 



eldest, Elizabeth, married 



Christopher Vernon," lord of 



the manor of Hertingfordbnry, 



and it is therefore possible lawhnci. a 



that Epcombs thus became " ' a £S' r " S" '■ 



united with the main manor. 



In 1877 it was the residence of Mrs. Fenwick, 35 



is now occupied by Mr. Charles F. H. Leslie. 

 In 1086 there was a mill at ' Thepecampe.' M 

 The RECTORY MANOR has always been 



by the rectors of the parish.' As a rule the rec 



of only one court a year survive, held at various 



times ; where the records of two survive they 



took place in May and October. In the reign 



of Edward III as many as four are recorded 



a year, but this is exceptional. 



rents from the manor amounted 



with embattled parapet and leaded spire. Some parts 

 of the belfry windows may be original. All the other 

 detail in the church is modern. 



. On the north side of the tower is an altar tomb to 

 Anne wife of George Calvert, 1622. On the tomb 

 is an alabaster effigy of a lady, with mural cornice 

 above supporting three shields of arms. On the 

 south side of the tower is an altar tomb to William 

 Harrington and his wife ; it is of early 17th-century 

 work. On a black marble slab are two recumbent 

 shrouded effigies of alabaster ; an arched cornice 

 above, supported on pilasters, bears the arms of 

 Harrington, eighteen quarterings in all. In front is 

 the kneeling figure of a child. Over the pulpit is a 

 mural tablet to Christopher Vernon, 1652, with his 

 arms above. In the north aisle is a mural slab to 

 Thomas Keightley, 1662, and his wife, 1682 ; and 

 in the chancel are floor slabs to Robert Mynne, 1656, 

 and Helen Mynne, 1 659. On the north wall of the 

 tower is a brass with inscription and shield of arms to 

 Thomas Eliis, 1608, and his wife, 1612. 





1638 the 

 aally, 



jrks." 



capons and various customary 



The church of 52". MART, 

 CHURCH which stands at the south-east end 

 of the village, consists of chancel 

 3 8 ft. 6 in. by 2 1 ft., north chapel 2 2 ft. by 13 ft., 

 south vestry and organ chamber, nave 50 ft. 6 in. 

 by 23 ft., north aisle 50 ft. 6 in. by 1 1 ft. 6 in., 

 south porch and west tower. These measure- 

 ments are all internal. The church is built of flint 

 rubble with stone dressings. The roofs are tiled. 



The church was extensively restored and 

 altered in 1845, and in 1890 it was practically 

 rebuilt. The chancel and possibly the nave 

 walls were built in the 13th century, the north 

 aisle and west tower being added in the 15th 

 century. 



The three 13th-century grouped windows in 

 the east wall of the chancel consist each of a 

 single lancet having moulded arches and shafted 

 jambs with moulded capitals and bases. The 

 moulded labels have head stops. The external 

 stonework is modern. In the chancel is a double 

 piscina, part of the eastern jamb of which is 

 original; it is of 13th-century date and has 

 moulded and shafted iambs enriched with the 

 dog-tooth ornament. The head and jamb stones 

 of two windows in the north aisle, which are each 

 of two cinquefoiled lights with a quatrefoil open- 

 ing in the head, are of 15th-century date, as are 

 parts of another window in the same wall, of two 

 lights under a square head ; a similar window in 

 the south wall opposite is probably a little later." 

 Two jamb stones of the south doorway and the lofty 

 four-centred and moulded tower arch are also of 1 5th- 

 century date. The buttressed 



s of three s 



There are five bells : the 

 1706 ; the second by T. Lcsl 

 John Briant, 1823 ; the fou 

 Hodson dated 1656. 



t by John Waylett, 

 1750 ; the third by 

 and fifth by John 



-, Her 



op. 



(Hirl. Soc. xxii), 72 i 

 (Ser. z), clxx.vii, 77. 

 is, Feod. Surv. no. 17. 



(Harl. Soc. xxii), 72. 

 clt. Hertford Hund. 



'. 3+3- 



» Ct. R. Edw. I-Edw. VI, in the 

 session of Mr. F. Seebohm, Hitcbin. 

 ■" Herts. Gin. and Antiq. iii, 178-e 

 * 3 Sir Edward Benstede desired in 

 will, proved in 15:19, that hia execi 

 should make a window in the wall 01 

 south Bide of the church and glaie it 



images of St. Alban and St. < Amphiabell,' 



s thcr. 



.vich t: 



arms of himself and his wife Joyce. He 

 also left money for tapers before the image 

 of our Lady of Aeon, and directed that hia 

 body should be buried before that image 

 l_P.CC. 25 Ayloffe). 



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