with a narrow waist, and an outward cloak, blazoned with the arms of Cheyne, of Cambridgeshire. She has on a necklace of jewellerywork, wrought with pearls: on her left hand are three rings; on her right hand, one. Her head-dress is very singular; her hair being turned back, and closely trussed up in a sort of cap of rich lace, from which, by means of wires, a sort of lappet, of very great size, is suspended. Between the heads of these figures, as well as at the corners and on the sides of the tomb, are the arms of Say, impaling those of Cheyne, several times repeated. Over the centre shield, at the top, is placed the crest of the Says, with the helmet and mantle. Round the verge of the tomb is a mutilated inscription in raised letters: this is as follows; the words in Italics being supplied from Weever.

Here Lyeth Dame Elyzabeth, somtym? wyf to Syr John Say, Knyght, dawter to Lawrence Cheyne, Esqbyer of Cambrigge shire; a woman of noble blode, and most noble in gode maners, which decessed the xxv day of Septem. A M ecce lxxii. and entired in this Church of Brokesborn abydyng the bodye of her sa:d Hus, band. Whose Soules God Bryng to Everlastyng lyff.

Many ancient Brasses, besides those above described, were formerly in this Church, and some yet remain; but of these several One of them represents a Priest, holding a chalice; with a label proceeding from his mouth, thus inscribed:

are now covered by the pews of the chancel.

Si quis eris qui transiris sta plege plora

Su qe eris fuera qe quod es p me precor ora.

At the corners, also, are labels, with the words hu mercy; and Lady helppe. Another slab in this chancel is inlaid with a male

figure,

These arms are represented in their proper colors, by means of pastes of red, blue, and black, which are let into the brasses; the brass itself being employed to represent the yellow parts of the arms, and a white metal somewhat like tin, to describe those intended to be white. This seems to be the mode of describing arms, in use previously to the introduction of engraved lines in different directions.

figure, in a cloak with open sleeves, in the centre, and the emblems of the Evangelists at the corners: from his mouth proceeds a label, with this sentence:

Miserere mei De' sedm magnā unam tuam.

In the north aisle is a slab, inlaid with curious Brass figures of JOHN BORRELL, Sergeant at Arms to Henry the Eighth; ELIZABETH, his wife; and their children, eight sous and three daughters. The Sergeant is depicted in plate armour, with roundels at the knees and elbows; on his head a helmet, the vizor up; both hands have gauntlets, and his right-hand sustains the mace: he has on a sword and dagger, and his feet rests upon a dormant lion. His Lady is arrayed in the square head-dress of the time. His arms are a saltire between four leaves in base, on a chief, a tyger's head erased between two battle-axes. At the sides of the slab are labels, containing the sentences Espsier en D.eu, and trust in God, alternately. According to Weever, the Sergeant died in 1531.

Among the other monuments, are several in commemoration of the Cock and Monson families; one of which, in the chancel, erected to the memory of SIR HENRY COCK, Keeper of the Wardrobe to Queen Elizabeth and James the First, who died at the age of seventy-one, in March, 1609, is constructed in a very stately manner, but is now greatly in want of reparation. Near it is the monument of WILLIAM GAMBLE, alias Bowyear, having beneath the inscription a grotesque carving, consisting of various specimens of osteology, exhibited in eight compartments, as through a shop window. The most elegant monument lately erected, records the virtues of HENRIETTA, "daughter of Sir George Armytage, of Kirklees, in the county of York, Baronet, and wife of Jacob Bosanquet, of Broxbourn Bury, Esq. who died," at the age of thirty-one, in October, 1797. The upper part displays a pyramid, on which is sculptured a fine female figure, bearing an inverted torch, and mournfully reclining on an urn overhung by a drooping willow. The inscription also commemorates the exem

plary character of ELIZABETH, "Relict of Jacob Bosanquet, of the city of London, Esq." who lived a widow thirty-nine years, and died at the age of seventy-three, in January, 1799. Beneath are the arms of Bosanquet, impaling Armytage. Sir William Monson, and his Lady, who founded an Almshouse in Broxbourn; Sir John Baptist Hickes, Bart. who died in November, 1791, aged seventy; Thomas Jones, Esq. formerly one of his Majesty's Judges of the Supreme Court of New York, in North America; and William Peere Williams, Esq. Editor of the Reports,' who died at the age of seventy-three, in June, 1736; have also memorials in this Church. The interior has a neat and handsome appearance, having been lately ornamented by the parishioners. The Font is ancient; the bason is supported by a column in the centre, surrounded by eight smaller pillars,

BROXBOURN BURY, the seat of Jacob Bosanquet, Esq. and formerly the residence of Lord Monson, has, within a few years, been new fronted in the modern style, and otherwise improved. It is a spacious edifice, standing in the midst of a pleasant Park, which has been considerably enlarged by the present owner, and has a neat Porter's Lodge, recently built, Sir Henry Cock entertained James the First in this mansion, in his progress from Scotland. A large portion of the Stables, which were built on the same plan as the Royal Mews at Charing Cross, was taken down during the late improvements.

The Manor of WORMLEY was one of the seventeen with which Earl Harold endowed the Abbey at Waltham, and it continued attached to that foundation till the time of the Dissolution, when Henry the Eighth granted it to Edward North, Esq. and his heirs. It now belongs to Oliver Cromwell, Esq. of Cheshunt, but is rented by Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. of WORMLEY BURY, whose father, the late Sir Abraham, was created a Baronet in 1769, and succeeded his brother in the possession of that estate. The mansion at Wormley Bury is a substantial brick building, with a porti co, sustained on four stone columns, of the Composite Order, The grounds are pleasant, though not extensive; and their beauty is much increased by a sheet of water, over which is a Chinese bridge. Wormley

-Wormley Church is a small fabric, consisting only of a nave and chancel: the west end exhibits traces of considerable antiquity, and has on the north side, a small Norman doorway; and the chancel is lighted by three lancet windows. In the pavement of the nave is a slab, formerly inlaid with Brasses, of a male and female, kneeling beneath a representation of the Trinity; and beneath their feet two groups of children: one of the latter, and the figure of the man, has been taken away. Round the verge was an inscription, of which only the following words now remain: Here lyeth John Eok yoman and Al passed to God owte of this transitorie – -On a tomb, against the north wall of the chancel, are brass figures of a male and female, in dresses of the time of Elizabeth, with two groups of children beneath their feet; above them a shield of arms, parte per chevron between three griffins' heads erased, impaling, Or, a lion rampant, surmounted by a bar, charged with three bezants; and over the arms a rhyming inscription, and the motto, In vita vana vita.

In the pavement of the chancel is a coffin-shaped stone, having the faint outlines of a cross sculptured on it; and in the centre of the top some indistinct remains of a figure; round the verge a mutilated inscription, in very ancient Saxon letters, of which only the words Henri Goryon—- De' sa alme eit merci, can now be distinguished, Across this stone has been inserted a more modern brass, in memory of "Edward Shambroke, sutyme pson of this churche & p'bendary of ye Tath churche of St. Poule Lodoni" He died in December, 1534. On a slab in the pavement also is this inscription:

Hie iacet Johes Cleve qnda Rector huj' Ecclie de Mormele qui
obijt xxij. die Detobr Ao. dni M eccco, úíj, cuí' asē ppicier' do.

A similar inscription, on another slab, records the memory of Richard Rufton, who was also Rector of this Church, and died in May, 1457.

CHESHUNT is an extensive and pleasant village, principally extending along the sides of the high road, but having many desached and respectable buildings. In the Domesday Book it is

called Cestrehunt; an appellation that, together with its distance from London, the remains of an ancient Camp in a field to the west from Cheshunt Street, and a supposed military way leading from that to the Ermine Street, induced Salmon to place here the Durolitum of Antoninus. This opinion may be thought to receive support from the circumstance of Roman coins having been discovered here, of the Emperor Hadrian, Claudius Gothicus, and Constantine, which were exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries by Dr. Stukeley, and Mr. Sawyer, in the year 1724.*

Cheshunt contains several subordinate manors: the principal manor, from which some of the others have branched off since the time of the Domesday Survey, was given by the Conqueror, to his nephew Earl Alan, surnamed the Red, who commanded the rear of his army at the battle of Hastings, and was rewarded with the Earldom of Richmond, and the whole of Richmondshire, in Yorkshire, to which Honour this manor was an appendage. The Domesday Book records, that the right of trading here was in ten men, who paid ten shillings annual rent to the Lord for the privi lege; that the land was rated at twenty hides; and that here was pannage for 1200 hogs.

Henry the Third detached Cheshunt, with other lands, from the Honour of Richmond, and granted them to Peter de Savoy, the Queen's brother; but he afterwards restored them to John, Duke of Bretagne, the inheritor of the Honour, whose descendant, also named John, resigned the Earldom of Richmond to John of Gaunt, fourth son of Edward the Third, from whom the grant of a weekly market was procured for this manor; but this has been very long disused. From this period Cheshunt descended, with the Honour of Richmond, till the time of Henry the Eighth, who granted the manor, and its appurtenances in this county, to his natural son, Henry Fitz-Roy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset. He dying without issue, it reverted to the Crown; and Edward the Sixth gave it to Sir John Gates, and his heirs; but after the attainder

Gough's Camden, Vol. I. p. 346. Mr. Gough queries whether Durolitum should not rather be placed at Durnford, vulgarly Tuinford, a little village at the north end of Cheshunt, by Cheshunt Wash.