at the Dissolution, and were by exchange made over to Sir Thomas Darcy, of Chiche St. Osyth, knt. These lands, in the reign of Elizabeth were in the possession of Martha Turner, and now belong to Miss Tilney Long.

William Osbaldston, D. D. was ejected out of this rec tory in the times of the rebellion, A. D. 1642. His predecessor, Valentine Cary, was dean of St. Paul's, London.

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example to thee; let his vices be buried together. As to an example of manners, if you seek that, you have it in the GOSPEL: of vices, I wish you to have one no where. Of morality, certainly, and may it profit thee, you have one here, and every where. This stone, which will itself perish in a short time, records that he was born August 29, 1632; that he died October 21, 1704."

Locke's writings will render him immortal. In all which, as well as in his actions, he gave extraordinary proofs of his learning, knowledge of the world, and the business of it; so that he has deservedly obtained the following character. He was prudent without cunning, he gained the esteem of every person by his probity; and was always safe from the attacks of a false friend, or a sordid flatterer. Averse from all inanner of mean complaisance; his wisdom, his experience his gentle and obliging manners, secured him the respect of his inferiors, the esteem of his equals, and the friendship and confidence of those of the highest quality. Without setting up for a teacher, he instructed others by his own conduct. He remembered a great many agreeable stories, which he always introduced properly, and generally made them yet more delightful by his manner of telling them. He was no enemy to raillery, provided it were delicate, and perfectly innocent. He accommodated himself to the reach of all capacities. He had a peculiar art of conversation, to lead people to talk of what they understood best; and by such means acquired a very good insight into most arts. He was so far from assuming those airs of gravity, by which some persons, as well learned as unlearned, love to distinguish themselves from the rest of the world, that on the contrary he looked upon them as an infallible mark of impertinence. Nay, sometimes he would divert himself with imitating that studied solemnity, in order to turn it the better into ridicule; and upon this occasion he always remembered the maxim of the duke of Rochefoucault, which he admired above all others, That gravity is a mystery of the body, invented to cover the defects of the mind.' He was naturally choleric, but his anger never lasted long. If he retained any resentment, it was against himself for having given way to so ridiculous a passion; which, as he used to say, may do a great deal of harm, but never yet did the least good. He disliked those authors, who labour only to destroy, withM m 2

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The small village of ROYDON stands on the Start; the manor was given by Robert Fitzwalter, in the reign of king Edward I. to the Knights Templars, from which circumstance the village took the name of Temple Roydon.

Upon the extirpation of the Templars, about 1312, the lands which they possessed in this town were given to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, who enjoyed them, with the rectory, and patronage of the vicarage, till the suppression of the monasteries, when they came to the crown, in which they remained, till queen Elizabeth, in 1601, granted them all to Francis lord Norris, to be held of the crown in capite, from whose family they came to William earl of Salisbury, in which noble family they still continue.

The manor of NETHER HALL, in this parish, originally belonged to Waltham Abbey. It afterwards came to the family of Colt; one of whom seems to have been a favourite of Henry VIII. In the History of Waltham Abbey, it is said: "that Sir HENRY Colt, of Nether Hall, having notice that some of the monks of Waltham were harboured in Cheshunt nunnery, pitched a buck-stall in the meadow, and enclosed them as they were returning in the dark from the convent. He brought them next morning to Henry VIII. who observed "that he had often seen sweeter, but never fatter venison." *

The remains of Nether Hall, consisting of the principal

out establishing any thing themselves. He advised that, whenever we have meditated any thing new, we should throw it as soon as possible upon paper, in order to be the better able to judge of it, by seeing it all together; because the mind of man is not capable of retaining clearly a Jong chain of consequences, and of seeing, without confusion, the relation of a great number of different ideas. His Essay on Human Understanding,' is a master piece in its kind, formed to qualify men for business and the world, as for the sciences and speculation.

* Salmon's remark on this is, that "it is pity any thing should disparage the story, as that minute circumstance, that there was no Sir Henry Colt at that time; a critic may turn him into John or George. He may have been a very useful man in his days, if he taught king Harry to impound the monks."—Esser, 76.

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entrance and two ruined towers, exhibit grand specimens of the mode of brick building in the reign of Henry VIII.

Adjoining Roydon is the parish of NASING, in the road to Waltham Abbey: it is thus noticed by the poet of Amwell:

Delightful habitations! o'er the land

Disper'd around, from Waltham's osier'd isles

To where black Nasing's lonely tow'r o'erlooks

Her verdant fields.

This village was antiently written Nasingen, and Nasinges, and was included among the seventeen lordships with which earl Harold endowed Waltham Abbey.

King Henry II. by his charter dated at Winchester, again confirmed their privileges to the abbot and canons regular, and particularly mentions, that of the lands at Nasing, Proventus vestibu semendis assignati sunt, i. e. The profits were assigned to them for mending their cloathing.

At the suppression of the monasteries by king Henry VIII. this manor remained in the crown, till it was granted in king. Edward's VI.'s reign to lady Joan Denny, widow of Sir Anthony Denny. Here is the seat of William Palmer, Esq. facing the road; the house is plain but handsome, with a portica in the front, and contains several neat and convenient apartments. The grounds are finely laid out; and the greenhouse plants are curious. Adjoining to the house is a machine of immense power for raising water.

The advowson of this vicarage is in the crown. In the church is nothing worthy notice.

Mr. John Hopkins, vicar of this church, was one of those ministers in the archdeaconry of Essex, who was deprived for non-conformity, because he refused to subscribe the articles enjoined by John Whitgift, then lord archbishop of Canterbury, A. D. 1583.

WALTHAM ABBEY; OR HOLY CROSS.

This town is about twelve miles from London; and arose from a variety of circumstances. The following detail,

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