Hampden to make his crime capital, he was sentenced to pay an exorbitant fine; which, far exceeding his ability to pay, was equivalent to the sentence of perpetual imprisonment *. Mr. Gough, in his additions to Camden, has given the following particulars respecting the manor of Rye, from William of Worcestre, p. 86, 87. "Nobilitas Andreæ Agard, chevalier qui obiit anno Christi 1454 die St. Kalixt. apud Bokenham. De proporcione et mensura manerii de Rye per 16 milliaria de London in Esser. Mem. The utter court at Rye, ys 75 steppys in length, and in brede 60 steppys. The hede of the mote is 20 steppys. Item, from the utter yate to the logge paled and parked yn every side ys yn length 360 tayllors yards. Aula continet in longitudine 34 pedes et in latitudine 24 pedes. Item claustri longitudo continet 17 virgas et dimidium, et latitudo continet 13 virgas. Longitudo unius quadrati principalis curiæ ex parte boreali continet 28 virgas. Item continet 39 virgas in longitudine ex parte orientali manerii. Item dictus Andreas per 8 annos in Anglia existens custodiebat capellam in domo sua de presbiteris, clericis, et choristis, qualibet die 16, cum 4 presbiteris ad expensas C libr. per annum. Item dedit ecclesia Wyndham Abbey xv capas de panno auro coloris blodii cum les orfreys cum suis arnis. Perquificio manerii de Rye constabat 1130 libr. Item granavium, 16 equi, et 30 vaccæ, cum le storehows mercandizarum 2000 marcæ. Item le byldyng de le inner court edificat. cum bryke, et cameris cum claustro cum reparacionibus ad summam ii m marcarum." crave mercy for her husband: in vain did the earl of Bedford offer an hundred thousand pounds, through the mediation of the all-prevailing duchess of Portsmouth, for the life of his son. The king was inexorable. And to put a stop to all farther importunity, he said, in reply to the earl of Dartmouth, "I must have his life, or he will have mine!" (Dalrymple's Appen. and Mem. part i.) "My death," said Russel, with a consolatory prescience, when he found his fate was inevitable, "will be of more service to my country, than my life could have been!" Lord Grey's Hist. of the Rye House plot. State Trials, vol. iii. *Lyttleton's Hist. of England, II. p. 649. Crossing Crossing the bridge, and keeping along the banks of the Lea; then crossing Broxbourn bridge, and skirting the New River, we arrive at WORMLEY, which was one of the seventeen manors with which king Harold endowed Waltham Abbey. There was a cross erected where the three ways at Wormley meet, to which the abbot of Waltham annually sent some of his canons on the 3d of May and 14th of September, who walked in solemn procession with the parishioners, singing a litany. "This," says Salmon, "seems to be a kind of processioning to keep their lands, that joined to the kingdom of Mercia, distinct from the lands of the abbey of St. Alban's, which were in that kingdom, aud were contiguous to Wormley. This place retained the name of Holy Cross." Wormley continued in the possession of the abbey till its dissolution, when it was granted to Edward North, and his heirs, at a rent of 17. 13s. per annum. After passing through various owners, it devolved to Oliver Cromwell, Esq. of Cheshunt; from whom it is rented by Sir Abraham Hume, bart. of Wormley Bury, whose father was created a baronet in 1769. The mansion of Wormley Bury, is substantially built of brick, with a handsome portico, supported by four columns of the Composite order; the house is seen with great advantage from the fields near Broxbournbury. The grounds are very pleasant, though contracted in space; a Chinese bridge over a sheet of water, however, adds to the beauty of the scenery. The church is a small mean fabric, but exhibits traces of great antiquity; and is apparently the original building at the time of the Conquest. Within are memorials of the family of Hume; and an altar piece, representing The Last Supper, given by Sir Abraham Hume; and in the churchyard was buried Dr. JOHN GLEN KING, author of an "Account of the Ceremonies of the Greek Church," and other interesting publications; he was rector of Wormley. Returning to the public road, we proceed to the pleasant and romantic village of BROXBOURN. This small, but charming village, is fifteen miles from the metropolis, and beautifully situated on a rising ground, with meadows down to the river Lea; it is also watered by the New River, which passes near the church towards London. The man was granted by William I. to Hugh de Gren tesmaisnill, who settled it on his wife Adeliza; after her death it became the inheritance of Ivo, her fourth son, on the decease of his elder brothers. He gave Broxbourn to the abbey of Bermondsey, on account of its being the place of his mother's sepulture; the grant, however, was disputed, and reassumed by Robert Blanchmains, earl of Leicester, who had married Petronill, daughter of Hugh, a descendant of Ivo; they jointly, with the consent also of their sons, granted this manor to the knights of St. John of Jerusalem, who retained it till the dissolution of the priory. The prior and chapter of St. John's Hospital, had given the church of Broxbourn, with all its revenues, to Richard Fitz Neal, bishop of London, and his successors, under the yearly pension of four marks of silver. It appears, therefore, that this church has been in the possession of the bishops of London, from the reign of Richard I.; and those prelates, from the period that a vicarage bath been endowed here, have been proprietors of the rectory, and patrons of the vicarage. Bishop Compton, granted 107. 105. to be paid yearly to the bishop, and 30l. per annum to the vicar and his successors. Though this parish is in the hundred of Hertford, the greatest part of which is in the diocese of Lincoln, yet being in the deanery of Braughing, it is in the diocese of London, and for that reason exempt from the jurisdiction of the bishop of Lincoln, and from any archdeacon under him; besides, being a peculiar of the bishop of London, it is exempt also from the archdeacon of Middlesex, to whom the deanery of Braughing is subject, and pays no procurations nor synodals to him. After the dissolution of St. John's priory, Henry VIII. sold Broxbourn, and its appurtenances, for 13397. to Johu Cock, |