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of the manor of Edgeware*; with whom 
it continued till it was alienated from the 
crown by Henry VIII. On the 19th of 
March, 1580, (5 Ric. 2.) this manor ‘was 
~ Jeased, with the advowson of the church 
or chapel, to William, John, and Richard 
Sharp, for ten years; under the strict - 
conditions, of previding a chaplain, to ce- 
-Jebrate continually, and keeping the 
chancel in due repairf; And the sme 
_ injunctions were repeated in 1506, wien 
the manor and advowson were leasel to 
George Dalison, esq.} 
“From the time of Henry VIIT. the 
patronage of the living has desceniled 
with the manor, as may be seenin Mr. 
Lysons’ Environs of London|. ] 
~ Tn 13879, Sayer de Stichenach, ‘ca- 
pellan here, bequeathed his body to be 
buried in the church with 6s. 8d. to the 
light of its patron saint, St. Margaret; 
and ‘ uram vaccam’ to the fabrics. 
“¢ Among the reprises of the manor of 
Edgeware Boys in 1398, the following 
which concern the church are enume- 
rated. 
“ Resolve. Item capellans, una do- 
mus competen cum gardins et all’ag’. ac 
cum xxxiji uj? Itm. in die Pasche in 
pano benede’s vj? Item in deibz rogat 
apud Boys in-pane c’vis’ laste et caseo 
3i}° iiij¢ Item in pane vino et cera p. annu’ 
pro missis celebrand. 1° 1! 4]. 
“ The benefice is a donative or curacy, 
endowed from time immemorial with the 
tithes of hay, and all vicarial profits; and 
was augmented by Mr. John Jones with 
the rent of ihree houses 1n Tlozier-lane**. 
The commissioners appointed by Crom- 
well, 1650, advised it to be consolidated 
with Little Stanmoreff; but the union ne- 
ver took effect: and, in 1657, the sum of 
thirty pounds was voted as an augmenta- 
tion tothe curacyif. 
* Cl. 99, Ed. 1V.m.5.d. Lysons II. 244. 
++ MS. Cotton. Nero, E. VI. f. 806. 
{ MS. Cotton. Claud. E. Vi. ff. 44. 85 b. 
where it is called the church, and not as in the 
former MS. the church, or chapel, of Edge- 
ware. 
{| Wel. TD: p. 244. 
§ A cow was by no means an unfrequent 
gift, either for the reparation of a church, or 
the maintenance of lights before the image of 
asaint. As at Braintree, in Essex, where no 
Jess than eight instances of the kind occur. 
See Tindal’s specimen of an History of Essex, 
p- 65. : 
-@ MS. Cotton. Nero. E. VI Ff. 81. 
** Lysons ik. 247. 
++ MS. Parliamentary Surveys, in Lam- 
beth Library, Lysons Il, 247, 248. $} Ibid. 
It is charged with © 
Retrospeei of Domestic Literaiure—Antiqu itlese 
13s. 4d. procurations to the archdeacon, 
and 3s. 5d. synodals, but with.no first ~ 
fruits or tenths to the king, nor with any 
procuration to the bishop*. In eccle- 
-siastical matters it is subject to the Arch- 
deacon of London, excepting as to wills 
and administrations which belong to his 
commissary. And to whomsoever it is 
given, the care is committed by the bishop 
to his chancellor. The present patron is 
Willam-Lee Antonie, esq. lord of the 
manor of Exigeware Boys. 
has preserved a list of the curates from 
1561 to 1700, chiefly from visitations. 
“Those during the last century are 
given here,— 
“ Samuel Smith, M.A. buried in the 
ehurch, 1713. 
“¢ Francis Coventry, died 1759. 
* William Totton, M.A. buried im the 
church, 1787. | 
“1787. Thomas Martin.” 
“Hapigy.—A hermitage at Hadley, was 
given to the Monks of Walden by their 
ounder, Geifray de Mandeville}, which 
seems to have had a chapel; and was 
confirmed by Henry the Third, in the 
thirty-third year of his reignf. ~ The 
earliest mention Mr. Lysons found of 
Hadley, as a parish, was in 182@||, when 
the church was rated at four marks. 
The manuscript, however, which he 
quotes§, is’ little more than a transcript. 
of Pope Nicholas’s Taxation, 1291, so 
often referred to in these pages, and 
where the church is mentioned as appro- 
priated to the abbey of Walden§. Other 
documents, however, have assisted in 
tracing its antiquity somewhat higher. 
Tn the British, Museum is still preserved a 
very beautiful chartulary of the abbey**, 
one portion of which is appropriated to 
instruments wherein the churches in the 
Monks’ possession are confirmed to them. 
Among these is a charter from Roger, 
Bishop of London, about 1235}, wherein 
the Church of Hudley is expressly enu- 
merated among those bestowed on the 
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* Newc. Rep. I. 598. 
+ Mon. Ang. 1 459. 
t Harl. MS. 3739, f. 12: b. 
|| Environs of London, Il. 522, note 25. 
§ Marl. MS. 60, in Brit. Mus. 
| <* Ecclia de Hadle appata Abbé de Balen - 
den, ii. nrc.” MS. penes rem. Regis, f/ 26. be 
**& Hiarl. MS. 3739, written under the di- 
rection of Abbot Pentelowe, 1387. Of the 
larzer folio size, on vellum. a 
++ Roger Niger was consecrated Bishop of 
London, June 10, 1229, and died 1241. See 
Le Neve’s Fasti Ecclesia Anglicane, p. 177. 
Monks 
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