St. Ebrulfe was Patron of the church, and the Rector by ancient custom paid to him four marks a year. In Burton's time, John Bale, Efq. was Lord of the manor and Patron.

Johes Bale, de Carlton Curlew, in Com. Leic. had iffue John Bale de Carlton Curlew, who married Johanna, da. Pettie, and died S. P. Robert Bale de Carlton Curlew, fecond fon, married Johanna, daughter Camble de Burton Overy, in Com. Leic. and left Edmund Bale his eldest son, S. P. John Bale de Carlton Curlew, et Sadington, in Com. Leic. Knt. liv ing 1619, married Frances, daughter of Barnard Brocas, de Com. South. whofe eldest fon, George Bale de Carlton, married Elizabeth, daughter of Valentine Hartop de Burton Lazers in Com. Leic, whofe eldest fon and heir, John Bale de Carlton Curlew, living 1619, married Emma, daughter of William Halford de Weliam, in Com. Leic. by whom he had iffue John, heir apparent, æt 2, 1619, and three other fons, William 2d fon, æt. 1, George 3d fon, æt. 2, 1622, and Francis 4th fon.-Arms quarterly and 4, G. and A. a fpread eagle wings argent. tals. or:-2 and 3. B. 3 fpears, fhaft, or points B.Creft a lion iffuing from a wreath, G. holding in his paws a warlike weapon,

In the fame vifitation book we find alfo the following account of Warde, in this parish.

"Warde de Carlton Curlew.

Theobald Ward de Carlton Curlew, in Com. Leic. ob. 25 Henry VI, married Anne, daughter of Chefelden, (vide Pat. 20 Henry VI, pl. 2. m. 30.) by whom he had Margaret, wife of John Dansey.

Thomas Warde de Carlton Curlew, brother to Theobald, married Felicia, daughter of John Fritby de Carlton, whofe fon, John Warde de Carlton Curlew, married daughter of Allen de Markfield, in Com. Leic. whose fon, John Warde de Carlton Curlew, married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Athby, of Quenby, in Com. Leic. whofe fon and heir, Thomas Ward de Carlton Curlew, married Alicia, daughter of William Barton, of Bramfton, in Com. Rutland, whose cldest son, George Ward de Carlton Curlew, et de Marfton Truffell, 1619, married Jane, daughter and heir of John White de Marlton Truffell, in Com. Northampton, by whom he left iffue John his fon and heir, æt. 20, 1619, and three daughters, Frances, Elizabeth, and Mary.

* Visitation of Leicester, 1919, Muf. Brit. Bibl. Harl. 1180.

Arms. B. a crofs fleure int. 4 annulets O.-*

"I cannot here omit one obfervation, (fays Burton) which (by fome) hath been made of the naturalists of this town, that all thofe who are born here, have an harsh and rattling kind of fpeech, uttering their words with much difficulty, and wharling in the throat, and cannot well pronounce the letter R; which, whether it be from fome peculiar property of the water, foil, or air, or by fome fecret effect or operation of nature, I cannot well difcover." After various quotations and authorities to prove the effects that water, foil, and air, produce upon the human body, he concludes with the following curious anecdote. "And as I remember, in the year 1592, when Queen Elizabeth came in progrefs to Oxford, (I then being a student in Brazen nose College,) amongst many queftions, which were difcufied in St. Mary's, before her Majefty, there was one in Phyfic; whether that the air, or meat, or drink, did most change a man? And a mer, ry Doctor, Doctor Ratcliffe, going about to prove the negative, fhewed a large big body, a great belly, a fide waift, all, as he faid, fo changed by meat and drink, defiring to fee any there fo metamorphofed by the air. But it was concluded (by the moderators) in the affirmative, that the air had greater power of change."

Leaving now Newton-Harecourt, another ancient Lordship of that family, a little on our left, we pass thro' the village of GreatGlen, in the fame Hundred of Gertre; called alfo in old records Glen Marcell, from an ancient family of that name, who were Lords of it. In the time of Henry II, Eudo Marcell was feifed of this Manor. In 6th of Edward I, Roger de-la Zouch, held lands here. And in 20th Edward IIi, Henry Fitz Roger was Lord of this Manor, held of the honor of Winchester, to whom that king, in 22 of his reign, granted liberty of keeping here a market and a fair.

In 20th of Richard III, John de Bonville was Lord of this Manor.

It came afterwards to Henry, Duke of Suffolk, by descent from Bonville; after whofe attainder, it came to John Neal, Gent. great-grandfon to Sir Richard Neal, Knt. one of the Juftices of Common Pleas, in Edward IVth's time, whose fon George Neal was Lord of it in Burton's time.

This church, which is a Vicarage, formerly belonged to the Abbey of Alencefter, having a Chapel of Eafe, Stretton-Magna,

fituated about two miles north-east of it, which manor formerly belonged to the Harecourts above-mentioned, and now to Sir George Robinfon, Bart. who has a feat here.

Having now entered the Hundred of Guthlakefton, as we approach Oadeby, fee peeping on our right the fpire of Stoughton, which formerly was a feat of the Beaumonts, and now belongs to the Kecks. On our left the two fpires of Wigfton, in old deeds written Wickingetton; which formerly having two churches, was called Wigfton with two steeples. One of these churches has been long out of ufe; but is now converted into a school.

In the 6th Henry I, Sir John Swillington was Lord of this Manor. Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchefter, gave 40 yard lands in this town unto Hugh de Vere, Earl of Oxford, in frankmarriage with his fifter Haweis de Quincy, in the time of Henry III.

In the reign of Edw. I, Sir Simon Friday, Kt. Robert de Champaign, and Win. de Winterborne, held lands here of the honor of Winchester. The churches anciently belonged to the Prior of Lenton. The prefent church is a vicarage, of which, in Burton's time, John Law, Gent, was the Patron.

The village of Oadby, which we now paffed thro', exhibits nothing scarcely but roofs of mofs grown thatch, upon mud and clay walls; yet the church is large, confifting of a good nave with ailes, and a large chancel.

Within two miles of Leicester, we leave, close on our left, the village of Knighton, famous for being the birth-place of that learned hiftorian Henry de Knighton, Abbot of Leicefter, who wrote his history from William the Conqueror, to the time of Richard II, in whofe reign he died. It is in the parish of St. Margaret, in Leicester, and has a fair Chapel, with a high spire fteeple.

Leicester, the capital of the County, tho' of magnitude and antiquity fufficient to occupy much time and attention, delayed us but a fhort time. Such remarkable places are already well known to the world. Camden, Burton, and other writers, have fufficiently difplayed the remarkable events, antiquities, and principal features of this opulent and popu'ous town. Mr. Nichols is alfo about to illuftrate this place, of which we have feen many curious engravings. And it is not our intention to repeat what has been faid at large by our predeceffors, but to fly to objects jefs known or investigated.

(To be continued. )

ART. IV.

ART. IV. Some Account of Greenwich, in Kent, with the Monu mental Infcriptions, c. in the Parish Church, dedicated to St. Ealphege.

Greenwich, in Latin, Grenovicum, or Viridis Sinus, and in Saxon Grenawic, that is, the Green town, upon the creek of the river, is fituate in the Hundred of Sutton Lath. At the time of the Danish invasion, this place was made remarkable for being the harbour of their Fleet, but more particularly for the cruelty which they exercised upon Ealpege, Archbishop of Canterbury; whom in the year 1012, they put to death by most exquifite torments. The particulars of which, tho' Camden and later writers have given them, we ft all here infert, as being connected with our other materials. They are thus defcribed by Ditmarus Merfepurgius, who lived about the fame time, in the eighth book of his Chronicles. "I understood (fayth he) by the relation of Seward, a pitiful deed, and therefore memorable, viz. that the perfidious crew of Northman Soldiers under Thurkil, as yet their captain, took that excellent prelate, Archbishop of the City of Canterbury, named Elphege, and him after their wicked manner imprisoned and bound, yea and put him to endure famine, and unspeakable pains. This good man, moved with human frailty, promifeth unto them a fum of money, and for the obtaining thereof, did fet down a time between; that if in this space, he could not by fome acceptable ransom, escape this momentary death, he might yet in the mean while purge himself with many a groan, to be offered as a lively facrifice unto the Lord. But when all the time and space appointed were come and gone, this greedy gulph of pirates called forth the fervant of the Lord, and in threatening wife demand this tribute promised unto them, to be fpeedily and out of hand paid. Then he, as a meek lamb, "Here am I, quoth he, ready to undergo ever for the love of Chrift, whatsoever ye presume now to do against me, that I may deferve to become an example of his fervants, and nothing am I troubled at this day. And whereas I feem unto you a liar, it is not my own will, but great need and poverty that hath done it. This body of mine, which in this exile I have loved over much, I prefent unto you as culpable unto you; and I know it is in your power to do with it what ye intend; but my finful foul, that regardeth not you, I humbly commend to the creator of all things." As he was thus fpeaking the whole rabble of these prophane wretches hemmed him round about,

* Normanni fignifying the Danes.

and

and getteth together diverfe and fundry weapons to kill him, which when their leader Thurkill faw afar off, he came quickly running, and crying, " Do not so I beseech you, and here with my whole heart I deliver unto you all my gold and filver, and whatfoever I have here, or can by any means come by, fave my ship only, that you would not fin against the Lord's anointed. But this unbridled anger of his mates, harder than iron and flint, was nothing molified with fo gentle words, and fair language of his, but become only pacified by fhedding his innocent blood, which presently they altogether confounded and blended with ox-heads, ftones as thick as hail, and billets hurled at him.”

He was thus barbarously murdered the 19 of April, 1012, and was for a long time after particularly refpected by the inhabitants, as a Martyr; and their parish church is dedicated to his memory. The following Church notes are tranfcribed from a MS. entitled, "Collectanea Ecclefiaftica, Hiftorica, & Academica, E. Collect. T. Baker, Muf. Brit. Bibl. Harl. 7048.

"Monumenta et Infcriptiones in Ecclefia Parochiali de Grenwich in Agro Cantiano.

"On the top of the partition wall between the nave of the Church and the Chancell.

"This church was erected, and dedicated to the Glory of God, and memory of St. Alphage, Archbishop of Cant: here flayne by the Danes, because he would not ransome his life by an unreasonable summe of money, An. 1012.

"Under the portraiture of Queen Elizabeth lying in ftate on a large penfile table upon the wall of the fouth fide of the nave of the church.

Olim parva fuit Grenovicum Villa, fed Ortu Virginis, Augustâ Clarior urbe micat.

"On a fair white marble fixt in the wall of the east end of the

Chancell.

"This Monument,

Was erected to preferve the memory of the incomparable Mr. Thomas Talis, who lies buried near this place, and had on his gravestone this underwritten epitaph.

Interred here doth lye a worthy wight, Who long in facred mufick bore the bell, His name to fhew he Thomas Talis hight, In honeft virtuous life he did excell.

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