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Cock, Esq. who was afterwards sheriff of the counties of Herts and Essex, and master of requests in the reigns of Edward VI. and Mary I. His son Henry+, knighted by queen Elizabeth, left a daughter and coheiress, who mar ried Sir Robert Oxenbridge, whose daughter Ursula, having married Sir John Monson, installed a knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I. the manor came into his family, in which it remained till the death of the late lord Monson; when it became the property, by purchase, of Jacob Bosanquet, Esq. one of the directors of the East India Company.

The house at BROXBOURNBURY, the seat of Mr. Bo sanquet, is a noble structure, in the midst of the park; and at a small distance from it were offices, erected in a quadrangle, on the same plan with the Royal Mews at Charing Cross, but which were lately taken down. They were placed behind a large plantation of trees, which circumstance in a great measure concealed them from public view. A neat portico lodge has been recently added to the improvements, by Mr. Bosanquet.

The antient manor, denominated the BASE or BAAS, was in the reign of Edward IV. the seat of Sir William Say, a principal person in this county, who, with his family, were considerable benefactors to the church. This manor has descended with the manor of Hoddesdon, and is now part of the property of the marquis of Salisbury.

The SPITAL BROOK, a small stream in the high road between Broxbourn and Hoddesdon, appears to have been so called from passing through the estate of the Knights Hospitallers.

.A very neat almshouse adorns the village; it was erected by lady Monson. Sir Richard Lucy, also founded here a

school, and endowed it with 187. per annum.

* Herts and Essex, till the eighth of Elizabeth, were served by one sheriff, sometimes for the space of seven years.-Salmon.

↑ Sir Henry entertained James I. in his journey from Scotland, as well as the great officers of state, &c. who had come to meet him.

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The church is situated at some distance from the high road, on the banks of the New River; overlooking the river Lea, towards Nasing eastwardly, and Waltham Ab bey and St. Paul's cathedral, towards the north. It is an object of great picturesque beauty from every point of view, and also a handsome and stately fabric, seemingly constructed with boulder, about the reign of Henry VI.; many of the nails of the cases in which the boulder was kept till it acquired a state of solidity, are still remaining in the wall. The building consists of a nave, chancel, and aisles; part of the east end has been repaired with bricks. The tower at the west end is of flints, very substantially compacted; it contains five deep-toned bells and a clock, and is surmounted by an octagonal spire, besides a sanctus bell at the corner. The chapel at the north-east end, was built by Sir William Say, knt. in the reign of Henry VIII. and has the following inscription, intersected by the arms of Say, round the frieze, on the outside:

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"PRAY FOR THE WELFAYR OF SYR WYLYAM SAY, Knygt, WYCH FODYD YIS CHAPEL IN HONOR A YE TRENETE THE YEAR of OUR LORD GOD 1522."

The interior of the church is spacious, and in a high state of elegant embellishment, through the liberality of the parishioners, one of whom has placed a neat piece of stained glass, representing the Virgin and Child, with the four evangelists at each corner, in the east window. The pews are convenient and handsome, and the whole body of the church is very neat, and kept in good order. The gallery at the west end was erected "at the sole charge of Sir John Fleet, knt. and alderman of London; for the use and benefit of the Blue-coat children belonging to Christ's Hospital, harboured in this parish, Ao. Dni, 1691:" but having been for a long time disused for its appropriated purpose, it now serves for the accommodation of a Sunday school, which has been promoted by means of the rev. Mr. Jones, the present vicar; the gallery also contains an

* We feel ourselves under great obligation to the rev. Mr. Jones, for his friendly reception and useful information re-specting his parish.

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organ, by Longman, procured by the same liberal endea vours, which adds very much to the solemnity of devotion. Among the benefactions recorded here, is one of great utility and benevolence, by Marmaduke Rawdon, Esq. who, in 1679, caused the water "to run in leaden pipes of one inch bore, from the main pipe to the stone image in Hoddesdon, from six o'clock in the morning to eight o'clock in the evening, the snmmer half year; and from eight o'clock in the morning to eight in the evening, the winter half year, for ever."

The wood cieling of the chancel, built by Sir William Say, is in good preservation, and has various devices carved on it in a very curious manner, such as roses, crowns of thorns, stag's heads, which Sir William bore for his crest, &c. In the windows are arms of the alliances of Monson; they are also decorated in some places, with the white rose, an evident mark of the period when the present church was founded.

Sir William Say's chantry is built in a superior style of architecture, and consists of two stories, with fire places, probably as residences for the priest who was to perform requiems for the souls of him and his family; the windows of these apartments are very narrow, and defended by

iron bars.

"Beneath the arch which separates it from the chancel, is an elegant altar-tomb of grey marble, of a reddish hue; having a rich canopy, supported on four octagonal columns. This was erected in memory of the above Sir William Say, who died in December, 1529, the twentyfirst of Henry the Eighth; and his "wyffs, Genevese, and Elizabyth." On the sides of the tomb have been brass plates, containing the arms of the family, together with ten others of whole-length figures, all which are gone: and against the east end, under the canopy, have been brasses, representing a knight, and two ladies, kneeling beneath a representation of the Trinity. On the upper part of the canopy, the crest of the Say's, a stag's head, is repeated on different shields.

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