The nave is divided from the aisles by three pointed arches on each side, rising from clustered columns, and from the chancel by a high pointed arch. The roof is of timber: that of the nave is curiously ornamented with whole-length carved figures, placed at the ends of the principal rafters, and at the rise of the knees. The windows are mostly large, and are divided by mullions into several lights; the tracery of some of them is not inelegant. At the sides and west end are large galleries: the organ is now undergoing a repair. Against the north wall of the chancel is a large monument inscribed to the Fullwoods,' who 'were descended from an ancient family settled soon after the Norman Conquest at Fullwode, (now called Clea Hall,) in the Parish of Tanworth, and county of Warwick;' and the first of whom, who came to reside at Huntingdon, married here in 1627: the last, a female, died in 1756. Dr. William Fullwood, who was some time Mayor of Huntingdon, was an eminent physician, and obtained great praise for his benevolent conduct during the Sickness,' or Plague, which made great havock in this town in the time of Charles the Second. The other monuments are not particularly remarkable. Several of the grave-stones in the nave, and other parts, display the indents of brasses, but all the latter are gone: on one very large slab were the figures of a knight and his lady. Many of the Cromwells of Hinchinbrook, &c. from whom descended the Protector Oliver Cromwell, were buried here; yet not any memorials of them are to be found, excepting the respective entries in the Register. Mr. Noble intimates, that they might have been destroyed during the Civil * Four of these were inscribed as follows, in Black Letter. Cotton MS. Hic Jacet Richus Levet alia Oyler de Wisbech, qui obiit Feb. 25°. Ao Dni 1506 Cujus & Orate pro animabus Robi Newell quondam Burgensis de Huntington & Agnetis Consortis suæ, qui quidem Robertus obiit 20 die Mens. Febr. A. Dni. 1509 Cujus &c. Hic jucet Rogerus Heyns quondam Burgensis villæ Huntington & Elena uxor jus. Qui quidem Rogerus obiit 25 die mens. Januarii An. Dni 1518, Quoram, &c.-Ego Thomas Beard Sacræ Theologiæ Professor, in Ecelesiâ omnium Sanctorum Huntingtonia. Verbi Divini Prædicator olim. Jam sanus sum. Obiit Januarii 8°. An. 1631. Civil Wars; and states, that "the outrages Huntingdon then experienced, her townsmen lay to the account of Cromwell; but they suffered much more from the Royal arms, than they did from those of the Parliament, as both Whitelocke, in his Memorials,' and the author of the 'Memoirs of a Cavalier,' relate." Huntingdon still consists of four Parishes, that of St. John being connected with All Saints, and that of St. Benet with St. Mary's. The principal Charitable establishments in this town, are a Free Grammar School, well endowed, and now extremely well conducted by the present Master, the Reverend Edward Edwards; and a Green Coat Scool, wherein twenty-four poor boys are clothed and educated, called Walden's Charity, from Lyonel Walden, Esq. who, by will, dated in July, 1719, gave 5001. for the purpose. Among the various other donations made for charitable uses in Huntingdon, was the sum of 20001. bequeathed by Richard Fishbourn, a citizen of London, who died in 1625, to purchase lands, the rents to be appropriated to the use of the poor: the same person made similar bequests of large sums to other places, the amount of the whole being computed at 11,000l. The Market-place is tolerably spacious: on the south side stands the Town Hall, a good modern brick building, stuccoed, with a sort of piazza in front and at the sides, for the market people; and behind it, the Butchers' shambles. The assizes are held here twice a year; the lower part of the building being divided for the purpose into two courts; one for criminal, and the other for civil causes. Above is a spacious Assembly Room, ornamented with full length portraits of their Majesties GEORGE THE SECOND and THIRD, with their respective Queens; and also a well painted picture of JOHN, the late Lord Sandwich, who died in April, 1792. The market is well supplied with provisions in general, and great quantities of corn are sold here annually. Huntingdon had its first charter about the year 1206. King John granted it a peculiar Coroner, receipt of tolls and customs, a Recorder, Town-clerk, and two Bailiffs. Charles the Second, by a new charter, granted in 1630, vested its government in a Mayor, twelve Aldermen, and an indefinite number of Burgesses, or Com mon mon Council, chosen from the principal inhabitants. The rights of returning the two Members to Parliament, is generally understood to be vested in the freemen and inhabitant householders, paying scot and lot; the number of voters is about 200: both the representatives are nominated by the Earl of Sandwich. This borough sent Members to Parliament ab origine, or from the twentythird of Edward the First. This town principally consists of one street, extending, in a north-westerly direction, from the banks of the Ouse, to nearly the distance of a mile, and having several lanes branching off at right angles. The more ancient town appears to have spread further to the eastward; yet, whatever might formerly have been the extent of Huntingdon, it is probable that its population is now nearly the same as it was a century ago; as Bishop Gibson states the number of families it contained in 1717, at 400, whilst the returns made to the House of Commons in 1801, recorded their then amount at 350. This total includes 993 males, and 1042 females; the number of houses was 356: most of the latter are of brick, and many of them large and respectable buildings, inhabited by genteel families. The streets have been paved, and are lighted in the winter season by a small assessment levied on the householders. Huntingdon being a principal thoroughfare to the north, has a good road trade, and contains several large inns. The brewing business is still carried on here, though not to so great an extent as formerly; and near the principal bridge is a small vinegar manufactory. The inhabitants are supplied with coals, wood, &c. by barges, and small vessels, which come up the river from Lynn, in Norfolk. HENRY, surnamed de Huntingdon, from his having been born here, was an eminent ecclesiastic and historian. He lived in the reigns of Henry the Third and Edward the First, and wrote a History of the Saxon Heptarchy, and of the succeeding Kings to the reign of Stephen, in eight books, published at Francfort, by Henry Sevil, in 1601: he died in 1280. RICHARD FISHBOURN, Gent, who has been mentioned above for his great charities, was another native of this town. Huntingdon Huntingdon was also the birth-place of one of the most extraordina ry characters that ever lived, the Protector OLIVER CROMWELL, who, though prevented by considerations of policy from assuming the regal title, enjoyed all the essentials of sovereignty, and ruled over this country with regal power. He was born in the Parish of St. John, on the twenty-fifth of April, 1599, and baptized four days afterwards, as appears from the following entry in the Register: Anno Dni 1599. Oliverius filius Roberti Cromwell, gener. et Elizabethæ, uxoris ejus, natus vicesimo quinto Die Aprilis, et Baptisatus vicesimo nono ejusdem mensis.” The family of Cromwell was of Welsh extraction; and there are pedigrees extant, which trace the descent of his ancestors from the Lords of Powis and Cardigan, who lived about the era of the Norman invasion. Their name, prior to the assumption of that of Cromwell, was Williams, which seems to have been first taken by MORGAN AP-WILLIAMS, Esq. who possessed a small estate at New Church, in Glamorganshire, and was Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Henry the Seventh. He married to a sister of Thomas Cromwell, afterwards Earl of Essex, and Vicar-General, the great favorite of Henry the Eighth; and the Earl himself was married to "Jane, widow of one Williams, of an ancient family of Wales, and daughter and heir of Sir John Prior, Knt." The Williams here mentioned, was nearly related to Morgan, probably VOL. VII. APRIL, 1808. a brother; A a * Over this entry is written in another hand, England's Plague for 5 years:' these words have been struck through with a pen. + Noble's Pro. Ho. of Crom. Vol. I. p. 239, from a MS. of Lilly. "The arms of the Vicar-General impaled with the Williams's, alias Cromwells, at Hinchinbrook, their seat, is a proof that an alliance was made between one of Sir Richard's family, and the Cromwells of Putney; and the emblazonry of the Countess's arms given by Milles, who has put the arms of her first husband, and not of her father, shews that her first husband, Thomas Williams, Esq. was of the same name and family as Sir Richard's father; from which it is evident that a double alliance was formed between the families of Cromwell of Putney, and the Williams's of Wales, who assumed the name of Cromwell." Ibid. a brother; and to this double alliance the Protector's family were indebted for that patronage which led the way to their advance in the state, and to the acquisition of possessions so extensive in this county, that their influence here may be said to have been preeminent for upwards of a century. RICHARD WILLIAMS, alias CROMWELL, eldest son of Morgan Williams, Esq. and great-grandfather to Oliver, was born in the Parish of Llanishen, in Glamorganshire.* He was introduced by his uncle, the Earl of Essex, to the notice of Henry the Eighth, whose favor he soon obtained by his active spirit, and various accomplishments. His preferment was forwarded through the zeal with which he engaged in the suppression of the dangerous insurrection that begun in Lincolnshire, when the King's measures first evinced a determined intention to abrogate the institutions of Pa pacy. In the following year, on the passing of the Act for the Dissolution of Monasteries, &c. he was appointed one of the Visitors of the Religious Houses; and he very quickly obtained a full share in the rich harvest of Abbey lands, which was now divided among the promoters of the Reformation. Previously to this, he had superadded the surname of Cromwell to his own, in honor of his relation, the Earl of Essex; and on the recommendation of the King, who had strongly enjoined the adoption of family names to all his Welsh subjects, in preference to the mode which then prevailed. In March, 1537,-8, he had a grant of the Nunnery of Hinchinbrook, near Huntingdon, with its appurtenances; and this was followed by several others, which rendered him one of the richest commoners of his time.+ *Lel. Itin. Vol. IV. p. 37,-8. In The annual value of Ilinchinbrook, says Mr. Noble, “ as stated in the deed, was 191. 9s. 2d. but making every possible allowance for the difference in the value of money and land at that time, to what it is at present, yet we must suppose this monastery to have been very much under-rated; for the grant states the lands and premises, given thereby, as lying in the several parishes and hamlets of Hinchinbrook, Huntingdon, |