By the Rev. C. Collier, M.A., F.S.A. 



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This inscription is not in its proper place : it must have been once 

 placed on a separate stone or mural monument erected to the memory 

 of the lady herself. 



On the same monument are the following inscriptions : — 



"This Benefactor Richard Kemis Gent gave to this towne of Andever 

 400£ to purchase 20 acres of land for the perpetual payment of 5£ to 

 the Free school, 5£ in a dole of bread weekly to ye poor, and 5£ to 

 them every Good Friday. 



" Also he gave to this Church in ornaments 50£, towards the paveing 

 of this towne, 100£, to the poor of Andever 40£, of Winchester 10£, of 

 Wherwell 10£, of Houghton, Stockbridge, and Longstoke x£, of Up 

 Clatford 5£, and the remainder of his estate to like uses. Obiit Sexto 

 die Octobris 1611." 



The Latin inscription to Nicholas Venables is, in English 



" Here lies N. Venables, gentleman, the pious father of two sons and 

 three daughters. He died aged 73 years Jan. 3, 1602. Rich d Venables 

 his younger son placed this memorial to his memory." 



The brass to the left of the monument is to Richard Venables and 

 Dorothy, his wife. The wife died in 1612, the husband in 1621. 



There was at least one chantry in the Church. This was founded 

 by Peter de Brugge and his wife in the year 1374. In searching 

 among the archives of the Corporation I found there the original 

 deed of the foundation. In the same bundle of papers were several 

 licences granted to priests to minister at the altar. This chantry 

 was dissolved by Hen. VIII., and its endowments were granted by 

 Edward VI. to Daniel and Alexander Pert, of Tewkesbury, but 

 eventually they were acquired by Winchester college in 1556. 



It is almost a natural sequence from the Church to the grammar 

 school. The ancient grammar school buildings were in the grounds, 

 now a shrubbery, opposite the vicarage. 



An indenture made between the bailiff, approved men, and bur- 

 gesses of Andover, of the one part, and William Blake, of Eastanton, 

 in the parish of Andover, gent., of the other part, recites that one 

 John Hanson, gent., deceased, in 1569 gave £&00 to be put forth at 

 the rate of £16 per annum, for the maintenance of a free school 

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