the old estate, was sold to Mr. John Edward Todd, of London, in 1823. The crest, which used to be over the gateway of the old hall, now constitutes the sign of the public house in the parish; it is a lion passant in carved wood, and the house by some is called the White Lion, and by others the Colvile Arms. Certain Roman coins of the emperor Gallienus were found in the parish about forty years since. There are no public benefactions in the parish; but an annual sum of money is paid to a schoolmistress, for teaching the poor boys and girls of the village in useful reading and work, of which the parish pays £7. 18s. and the rector £2. 2s. making together £10. The school is held in the vestry of the church,

The arms of Colvile, as born since the time of Edward I. are as under:

A lion rampant argent on a shield azure, a label with five points gules, the whole width of the shield. Crest, a lion statant argent, with an extended tail, wearing a collar of three points gules on a chapeall gules.*

The population of Newton in 1801 was 283; in 1811, 311; and in 1821, 368, viz. 179 males, and 189 females; comprised in 76 families, inhabiting 61 houses.

TID SAINT GILES,

A village adjoining to Newton, and lying not only at the most northern part of the isle of Ely, but of the whole county of Cambridge; so called, because the tide at some period came in hither. It borders in part

• See page 181.

divides the county of The church, dedicated

upon the shire drain, which Cambridge from Lincolnshire. to St. Giles, is a rectory in the deanery and hundred of Wisbech, and stands rated in the king's books at £21. 13s. It is a good neat structure, with a square embattled tower, containing a ring of five bells, and stands about fifty feet from the body of the church at the east end, which is very unusual. The pillars of the nave incline to the west, which induce some persons to suppose that a tower did once support that end of the church. The altar stands on an eminence of two steps, but not railed in. The chancel is of modern erection, built about seventy years since, when particular attention was given to discover whether the present tower was ever connected with the church, but the foundation showed no marks that any former building ever existed to unite the tower therewith. The roof has several projecting figures of angels and saints, rudely carved in wood. At the foot of the altar steps, exactly in the middle, was an old grey marble with the half figure of a priest in brass on it, but no inscription. The nave is separated from the chancel by a screen. In the middle aisle of the church is a gravestone with a large cross on it, and the following fragment of an inscription in old Gothic characters all round it, which appears to belong to the thirteenth century, though it bears no certain evidence of exact date; such part of it as is perfect is "Orate pro anima dni John Fysner "aie de ppiciet. Amen." In the windows of the north aisle used to be some old painted glass, and in the same aisle are two ancient slabs, appearing to have once had figures in brass. In front of the communion table is a handsome marble slab to the memory of the Rev. Richard Oswin, who died in 1795, aged 75. At the west end, on the north side, is a recent monumental marble to the

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open space in the
Carpenters' Arms,

Rev. Timothy Matthews, rector of the parish, who died
in August 1821, aged 52, and of his wife, who died
in November following, aged 50. The lord bishop of
Ely is patron of this living, which, by pope Nicholas'
taxation,* was charged at £42. The font is
entitled to notice, being of the later Gothic style,
octagonal, and richly ornamented
with tracery,
carved with emblems of the passion, and arms of the
see of Ely. Nicholas Breakspear is said to have been
curate here, who, for planting Christianity in Norway,
was made a cardinal a. D. 1154, and afterwards became
pope, under the name of Adrian IV. There is a tradition
that a market was once held in an
front of the public house called the
but the authority seems doubtful. The manor in the
fourteenth century was in the ancient family of Colvile,
before-named in the account of Newton, and afterwards,
in the year 1637, came by purchase into the Trafford family,
which originally came from Lancashire. This manor
was sold in the time of the great rebellion in 1648, to
one Davies, for £472. 11s.; but afterwards reverted to
the family of Trafford. In the manor house belonging to
the late Mr. Trafford, occupied by Mr. Scribo, at the
north-east of the church, on the other side of the road,
were several arms beautifully painted in a chamber
window. Sigismund Trafford, esq. who made consider-
able purchases in this parish, came last from Asterby,
near Horncastle, in the county of Lincoln: he married,
first, Elizabeth, the daughter of Gilbert Heathcote, esq.
lord mayor of London;§ secondly, lady Pratt, the widow
of Sir Roger Pratt, of Riston Hall, Norfolk: she died

See page 246. + See page 483.
Coles' MSS.
Nicholls' History of the Gentleman's Society at Spalding, p. 38.

in the 63d year of her age, and a monument was erected to her memory in Riston church by Sigismund Trafford. He rebuilt Dunton Hall,* on the north side of Shire Drain, at the expense of £22,000. on the model of Buckingham House, in St. James' Park,+ before it was altered and enlarged by his present majesty. This mansion was left to Sigismund Boehm, the son of his niece Ann Boehm, who died in the year 1740, at the early age of 48, whereupon, Clement, the second son of the last-named Sigismund, who took the name of Trafford agreeably to his great uncle's will, and was admitted of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, about 1755, inherited the estates, and after being some years in possession, pulled down the mansion house in the year 1767, and sold the materials for £1000. but removed the family pictures and painted glass to his seat at Stoke, in Norfolk. Events of this kind lead the mind into reflections on the vicissitude and instability of human grandeur! Mr. Clement Trafford 'married Miss Southwell, sister of Edward Southwell, esq. of Wisbech castle, about the year 1760, and in the following year was knighted: he died in 1786, leaving one daughter, Jane, and one son, Sigismund Trafford, esq. who, after his mother's decease, added the surname of of Southwell, conformably to her will, and now resides at Wroxham Hall, in the county of Norfolk. At the death of lady Trafford, relict of Sir Clement, in the year 1807, the principal estate was divided and sold in separate farms, The family of Trafford is very ancient, and the

"Dunton Hail," says Stukeley, "in the parish of Tidd, had been "magnificently rebuilt by Sigismund Trafford, esq. who has likewise en"closed a considerable park with a brick wall." The park was about a mile and a half in circumference, stocked with deer, &c.

+ See engraving.

This gentleman died at his seat at Wroxham Hall, Norfolk, on 1st August 1827.