A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



4 ft., which probably marks the position of the former 

 rood-stair. To the west of this is a window of two 

 cinquefoilcd lights with tracery under > four-centred 

 head i it is of mid-i 5th-century date and has been 

 much repaired. In the upper part are some fragments 

 of old glass of the same period. The other windows 

 in the south wall are modern. The roof of the 

 eastern part of the nave retains the 1 6th-centurj- king- 

 post trusses and timbers ; the rafters are plastered 

 underneath. 



There are two bells in the modern open timber 

 belfry, but they bear no mark or date. 



The communion plateconsists of cupandcover paten, 

 1712 (the paten had a new rim put on tn 1824), 

 another paten, 1822, and a modern plated flagon. 



The registers before ] S I 2 are as follows : (i) bap- 

 tisms, burials and marriages from 1578 to 1670; 

 (ii) baptisms and burials from 1671 to 1746, 

 marriages 1 67 1 to 1747 ; (iii) baptisms from 1747 

 to 1 81 2, burials I 748 to l8lz ; (iv) marriages from 

 [755 to 1812. 



The earliest record of a church 

 ADVOWSON in Stapleford occurs in 1285," when 

 the patronage was in the hands of 

 the lord of the manor, Robert Aguillon." Through 

 his daughter and heir Isabel it came to the Bardolfs 

 and descended with the manor of Watton until the 

 middle of the 1 6th centurv." In 1 5 ;o John Brow n 

 died seised of Watton Manor' and the advowson of 

 Stapleford,™ but soon aftensard^ they appear to have 

 become separated. Edmund Hynde was holding the 

 advowson in I 573."" In 1625 Sir William Sherard 

 of Stapleford presented, in 1 634 Oliver Harvey, in 

 1664 Arthur Spark of Hertford, and in 1677 Martha 



Williams, widow.' The advowson then came to 

 Thomas Winford of Lincoln's Inn,' who was created 

 a baronet in 1702 with special remainder — failing 

 his own issue — to that of his brother Henry Winford.' 

 He died the same year and was succeeded by his 

 nephew Thomas Cuokes Winford, who presented 

 in 1717, 1723 and 1711.* He died childless in 

 January 1743. 1 His widmv survived him and left 

 the advowson of Stapleford by her will of 1751 in 

 trust for her niece Elizabeth Mil ward.' In 1755 

 Elizabeth Milward sold it to Anne Deanc, widow, 

 of Witchampton, co. Dorset, 7 who presented in 1756.' 

 She left it by will to her nephew Robert Pargetcr,' 

 from whom it descended to his son Robert Thomas 

 Deanc Pargeter. 1 " who sold it in 1 794 to the 

 Rev. Archibald Stevenson, rector of Littleham, co. 

 Devon." The following year the Rev. Archibald 

 Stevenson sold the advowson to Robert Hamilton of 

 Leman Street, Goodman's Fields." In 1798 it was 

 purchased by Paul Bcndficld of Watton Woodh.ill," 

 who was declared bankrupt the same year," and in 

 1804 Benjamin Brooks, who had apparently bought 

 the advowson from him, presented. 11 In 1816 

 George Vansittart of Bimam Abbey, co. Berks., 

 acquired the advowson, 16 which he sold in 1819 to 

 Samuel Smith," who held the manor ofWaterford 

 Hall (q.v.)j and from this time the advowson has 

 descended with the manor. 



In 1674 Philip Botelcr by his 



CHARITIES will gave 40;. yearly to the poor, 



issuing out of a field called Church 



Field ; 201. thereof to be distributed on St. Thomas's 



Day and 20J. on Good Friday. There arc usually 



TEWIN 



Tewinge <xi cent.); Tl 



cent.) ; Tewinge, Tuyng (x\ 



The parish of Tew in ha< 



twinge, Tywyn* (xiii 

 i cent.), 

 an area of 2,694 acres, 

 arable land and 537 acres 

 valley of the Maran or 

 Mimram crosses the centre of the parish from we-t 

 to east. The ground there is about 1 70 ft. above the 

 ordnance datum, and rise; to the south to 266 ft. 

 and towards the north to 400 ft. The main road 

 from Hitchin to Hertford runs parallel to the river, 

 and to the north of this on the high ground the 

 village is situated, connected with it by a branch 

 road. The village of Tcwin is in two parts, the 

 most southerly portion, known as Lower Green, being 

 grouped round a triangular green where three roads 



the 18th and 19th centuries. The Rose and Crown 

 Inn is a small brick building of mid-1 8th-century 

 date retaining internally some plain panelling. The 

 rectory and church arc situated still further south 

 towards the river. The rectory is a brick house of 

 18th-century date. On the cast side is part of a 

 former house which dates from the 17th century ; it 

 is timber-framed and covered with plaster j part of 

 the chimney stack is original ; the roofs are tiled. 

 There is some 17th-century panelling in one of the 

 upper rooms, and in the kitchen is a wide fireplace 

 with a recess on one side. Adjoining the house is 

 a 1 7th-century barn, timber-framed and weather- 

 boarded, the roof of which is thatched. The stable, 

 which is built of timber and brick, appears to date 



480 



