| Retrospect of Domestic Literature— Antiquities. 
Monks by their founder*. Though in 
another charter of inspection, nearly 
coeval, by Galfrid de Lucy, deant, and 
the chapter of St. Paul’s, the list closes 
with * Myimes cum capella de Hadleet.’ 
In short, though mentioned in Pope 
Nicholas’s Taxation, and still acknow- 
ledged, as a church, it seems ever to have 
been a donative, the duty of which was 
prebably supphed by achaplata from the 
monastery. Vill the act passed for the 
enclosure of Enfield Chace, it was consi- 
dered as a rectory and donative, when it 
was placed under the bishop’s jurisdic- - 
tion|], fram whien it had before been ex- 
empt. The patronage of the rectory, 
till 1786, when it was purchased by Wil- 
ham Baker, esq§. bas been since the dis- 
solution of religious houses, constantly 
annexed to the manor; whose possessors 
may be found in Mr, Lysons’ Environs of 
London. 
“« The structure, dedicated to St. Mary, 
is a handsome building; it consists of a 
nave separated from the ailes by low 
pointed arches, resting on clustered pil- 
lars, with a chancel and transepts, and at 
the west end a handsome square tower 
of flint and stone, coped and coined with 
free stone. In the spandrils of the west 
door are quatrefvils and over it 
“ Anno Dai 
1898. 
with a rose and wing at the sides; per- 
haps meant as the cognizance of the Ab- 
bot of Walden at that time, John Sabys- 
‘worth, or Sabrisfort**. Thesame emblems 
are carved alternately under the upper 
windows of the nave of Enfield Church, 
which also belonged to Walden Abbeyt+. 
Mr. Gough mentions this date as the ear- 
lest instance of Arabic numerals he had © 
At the 
ever met with on a buildingff. 
top of the tower is a fire-pan or beacon, 
* MS. Harl. 7393. f. 243. 
_+ He was Dean of St. Paal’s, from 1231 to 
2241. 
t Harl. MS. ut supra. 
|| Lysons’s Enyirons of London, II. 523. 
§ SeeGent. Mag. 1786. @ Vol. Il. p. 518. 
** Willis’s Mitred Abbies If. 83. 
++ Pevge’s Sylloge of Church Inscriptions, 
p- 83. in the Bibl. Top. Brit. About the 
close of the fiiteenth century, every sumptu- 
ous habitation was crowded with cognizances, 
Fepeated upon every ornamental member of 
architecture, and particularly in the spandrils 
of arches. That these emblems had no re- 
ference to the arms of Waiden Abbey is evi- 
dent; they were Az. on a bend Gu. cettised 
Or 5 detqween two mullers of the last three cscallap 
shells Ar. 
$f Sepulchral. Monuments of Great Bri- 
_ tain, vol. I. p. 265. 
589 
which, when commotions in the state 
were more frequent than at present, must 
have been, from the elevated site of the 
church, of considerabie use. It was 
blown down by the high’ wind, on Janu- 
ary ist, 1779, when it was repaired and 
replaced. In the window of the north 
transept are some remains of painted 
glass, among which is the rebus of the 
Gooderes, representing a partridge with 
anear of wheat ia its bill, and on ascroll 
annexed ‘ Gogler.’ A sunilar device oc 
curs on a pillar of the opposite transept, 
which seems to point the Gooderes out 
as benefactors to the building of the church, 
“In Weever’s time*, the tollowing ins 
scription was to be found here—‘ Of your . 
-.. pray... . sowl of John Goodyere, 
esguyre and Jone his wyff which... died 
stan ay og LOS e., UROS. 80:15, 0) (1. at, TOU 
with many hundred others which Weever 
preserved, has long since perished. ‘The 
only monument of great age that still ree 
mains is on a wall beneath the stairs of 
the gallery, where is a brass plate for 
Philip, son of Walter Greeu; and, in 
the nave, is an inscription for Joha 
Burrows, L.L.D late perpetual curate, 
1786, Whe font, like the west door-way, 
is ornamented with quatrefoils, The 
church of [Tadley is supposed, by the edi- 
tor of Camden, to have been the chapel 
erected by Edward the Fourth to pray 
for the souls of those who were slain oa 
Giadsmore Heath,ini474+. Butthe date 
does not seem to verify the conjecture, as 
Edward had been dead eleven years. . 
“‘ As the curates of Hadley were never 
instituted, no list of them can be obtained 
from the London Registry. The present 
curate, or rather, since the act for ene 
closiug Enfield Chace, the rector, is the 
Rev. Charles Jeffries Cottrell, who suc- 
ceeded Dr. Burrows in 1786, on-the pres 
sentation of William Baker, esq.” 
Mr. Caarztes: Witp has published, 
*¢ Twelve Perspective Views of the Exte- 
rior and Interior Parts of the Metropoli- 
ticad Church of Canterbury; accompanied 
by Two Ichnographic Plates, and an His- 
torical Account.” Of the piates, which 
are all elegant, we prefer the south-west 
view ofthe cathedral, the Martyrdom, the 
western part of the south aisle, and the 
Trinity Chapel. In the letter-press, Mr. 
Wild acknowledges to have. received 
some assistance ‘rom Mr. Dallaway. 
Nor must we omit to notice a beautiful 
Ht'le work entitled, “ The Antiquarian 
* Fun, Mon. p.: 553. 
+ Camden’s Britannia, edit. 1789, vol. ii; 
p- $1. and Pegge’s Sylloge of Church Inscripe 
tiens, p. 83. \ 
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